{"id":388,"date":"2017-05-17T11:37:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T18:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/academics\/2017\/05\/17\/calming-the-anxious-student\/"},"modified":"2017-05-17T11:37:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T18:37:18","slug":"calming-the-anxious-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/academics\/2017\/05\/17\/calming-the-anxious-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Calming the Anxious Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This semester has been a tough one for my students. We had illness, car accidents, senior capstone stress, and the typical spring fever&#8211;all of which brought a great deal of anxiety into my already-difficult class. As their teacher, I know I&#8217;m supposed to maintain a certain amount of rigor in the content and assessment of the course, but I also believe in empathy for their experience. I care for the mental and emotional well-being of a student who has to pile three final exams into one day or a student who is under extra-curricular pressure of any sort. Interested in the topic, I&#8217;ve begun to research ways to support my students more holistically in their learning endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>Psychologists will define two types of empathy that can be used in the classroom, affective empathy and cognitive empathy, as defined here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Affective empathy is the typical use of &#8220;empathy&#8221; as an ability to empathize with others&#8217; feelings.<\/li>\n<li>Cognitive empathy is the ability to empathize with others&#8217; thought processes and perspectives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Empathy for both the emotional and the mental aspects of learning can benefit the classroom. According to Edutopia&#8217;s post, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/blog\/empathy-classroom-why-should-i-care-lauren-owen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Empathy in the Classroom: Why Should I Care?<\/a>, an empathetic instructor can have a positive impact on the classroom culture and community. Student perceptions of how much teachers care may also be correlated with strong<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamescmccroskey.com\/publications\/167.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> student learning and better end-of-term evaluations for instructors<\/a>. Not everyone agrees that empathy is a benefit, however. Some authors have indicated that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Empathy-Schmempathy\/238478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">empathy makes us less capable of making good decisions<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2015\/09\/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind\/399356\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more likely to coddle students right out of a good education<\/a>. Although I can see both sides of this debate, my personal experience is that if I inject a balance of both empathy and strong boundaries, my students are more likely to trust that I have their learning interests in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the ways I try to inject empathy into my own classroom. I:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>gather first-month, midterm, and last-month feedback from my students to reroute anything that&#8217;s not working.<\/li>\n<li>(by student request) build my assessments through small quizzes to help them study in smaller spurts before a bigger exam.<\/li>\n<li>pay attention to when students tell me they didn&#8217;t come to class because they were sick, and I follow up the next time I see them with my concern about their health.<\/li>\n<li>bring chocolate to exams (this one comes from a mentor of mine who swears there is a brain-chocolate connection).<\/li>\n<li>allow late work up until the third week of class as they are getting used to the drumbeat of the coursework, and then I let them know that I no longer accept it and why (boundaries).<\/li>\n<li>make time for them to work together to discuss with each other the difficulties they&#8217;re having with the material.<\/li>\n<li>give extra credit for work related to topics taught in my course (which gives them a better sense of control over their grade than when they are testing).<\/li>\n<li>allow students to retake portions of tests that were low.<\/li>\n<li>give students digital practice tests that give them instant feedback on their strengths and weaknesses.<\/li>\n<li>poll students in class (I use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polleverywhere.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poll Everywhere<\/a>) in order to more effectively teach to their weaknesses and questions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are myriad other ways to inject empathy into the classroom. Some individuals may critique some of these practices, but so far I think they&#8217;re working for the benefit of my students&#8217; learning experiences, especially as I&#8217;ve watched it lower what applied linguists call the &#8220;Affective Filter,&#8221; or the negative emotions and anxieties that impede learning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bringing empathy to the classroom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"custom_author_name":"","chapman_pin_hero_slider":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[279,74,264,44],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lx","tag-empathy","tag-learning-experience","tag-lx","tag-lx-design"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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