Engaging Students Through Emotion
Published on Dec 08, 2015
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Advice on Teaching
- Predict problems
- Clarify the contract/syllabus
- Don't play favorites
- Treat all students equally
- Never break a bargain
- Keep your cool
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Reality of Teaching
- Unpredictable problems occur
- The contract changes
- You will have favorites
- Students don't treat you the same
- Bargains will be broke
- You will lose your cool
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Emotions and Learning
- Role of Emotions in Learning
- Control-Value Theory of Emotion
- Origin of Student Emotions
- Empathic Teaching
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"Experience without emotion is like a day without weather"
The Science of Emotion (Cornelius, 1996)
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Enjoyment
Two theoretical reasons: 1) Positive mood signals safety and motivates relaxation; 2) Stimulates creativity "broaen-and-build"
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Implications for Teachers
- "Activating" material
- Task demands that meet student skills
- Emotional contagion
- Supporting sense of contro
- Mastery of goals vs. competitive structures
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Qualities of Empathy
- I can feel their concerns/emotions.
- I can see this from their perspective.
- Yet, I know and behave as separate from them.
Decety & Jackson, Functional Architecture
Empathy According to Rogers
- Genuine and "real" in relationship
- Acceptance of other as different person
- Seeing world through their eyes
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Reflections on Caring
Nel Noddings
Emapthic Teaching: Using OARS
- Open-ended question
- Affirmations
- Reflective listening
- Summarizing
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Case Examples
- Easy
- Moderate
- Hard
Elements of Flow Activities
- Focused
- Outside reality
- Inner clarity
- Time is distorted
- Our own making
- Sufficiently challenging yet doable
- No critical voice present
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Reflections on Education
Wendell Berry
