[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
. Onecan now see posttraumatic growth, characterized by feelings of rebirth andrenewal.I must admit that whenever I looked at Elijah, a large, imposing manwho sat near the front of the classroom, only a few feet away from where Istood, he seemed to have an angry or resentful expression on his face.Hisscowling expression made me uncomfortable.Richard reacted to Elijah in thesame way that I did.I often find myself looking at one or two students in everyclass, generally because I find their facial expressions friendly and reassuring.But occasionally there are scowlers whom I try to win over and make intoallies.Only late in the semester did I sense that Elijah found the coursemeaningful.I discovered this for the first time when I read his final examquestion on Empathic Teaching, which summarizes his feelings about thecourse, and then when I read an email he sent me in July, two months after thecourse ended:Since the completion of Love and Loss my whole outlook has changed.It feelsvery odd to say something like that because through out my college career Iusually never leave a class with the feeling that I gained something.The onlyother times I felt like I gained something out of a class was when I took an upperlevel English course on William Faulkner [and] when I learned about my historyin my Africana studies course.Aside from those two occasions, I always treatedschool like a job and simply completed the tasks that were asked of me.However,in this class something different happened. 210 Writing about Jeff s Former StudentsI can remember in the beginning of the term when the books were firstintroduced to us, I had to admit I was not very excited.I saw a common theme inall of them and I thought to myself I already have enough sadness in my life,why would I want to study depressing literature? While reviewing the list ofbooks I noticed toward the end that the professor s name was on one of the booksas the author.I was a little skeptical at first but as I began to warm up to the classand understand what the aims were I started to look forward to reading EmpathicTeaching.As I have stated in other papers, I found Empathic Teaching a muchmore interesting read because of its realness.The idea that there are otherpeople who feel the same way as I do, or have been through very similarexperiences is very comforting.Especially considering the book is based onpeople who took a class very similar to this.It certainly changed the whole classexperience for the better.I would definitely have to agree with the idea that an empathic approachto teaching enables students to understand themselves and their classmates inways that are impossible in more traditional argumentative classrooms. Collegeis a very important time in a career-minded person s development.College is alsowhere a person gains a lot of the abilities and experience needed to succeed.Atthe same time, when a person is a student it is very easy to feel like you are justanother student identification number.Empathic teaching changes that type ofscenario.Students rarely get close to any of their professors because of large classnumbers or simply because the student/professor relationship is more like abusiness.However, with a class that includes empathic teaching a student is ableto open up to his or her professor and I think it makes a world of difference in thestudent s outlook of the class.Personally, I loved the idea of being able to sharemy painful moments and confide in somebody who I felt was trustworthy, all thewhile improving my writing ability.The second advantage of empathic teachingis the support one gets from being around people who share the same pain.Everybody has things in their past or inside that bothers them and it is reallytherapeutic to be in an academic setting to discuss those types of feelings.Although we were all discussing and writing about painful personal memoriesI never once got the feeling that we were in some sort of support group.The lectures remained just as professional and always led to positive studentfeedback.I do not think I would have ever read a book like Empathic Teaching had Inot taken Love and Loss.Not to say that I am close minded but a book like thatmost likely would have not sparked my interest.I find that most English majorsdo not read enough literature for the sake of reading it.We have to read so muchtheory that we never have enough time to read other genres of English [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
zanotowane.pl doc.pisz.pl pdf.pisz.pl trzylatki.xlx.pl
. Onecan now see posttraumatic growth, characterized by feelings of rebirth andrenewal.I must admit that whenever I looked at Elijah, a large, imposing manwho sat near the front of the classroom, only a few feet away from where Istood, he seemed to have an angry or resentful expression on his face.Hisscowling expression made me uncomfortable.Richard reacted to Elijah in thesame way that I did.I often find myself looking at one or two students in everyclass, generally because I find their facial expressions friendly and reassuring.But occasionally there are scowlers whom I try to win over and make intoallies.Only late in the semester did I sense that Elijah found the coursemeaningful.I discovered this for the first time when I read his final examquestion on Empathic Teaching, which summarizes his feelings about thecourse, and then when I read an email he sent me in July, two months after thecourse ended:Since the completion of Love and Loss my whole outlook has changed.It feelsvery odd to say something like that because through out my college career Iusually never leave a class with the feeling that I gained something.The onlyother times I felt like I gained something out of a class was when I took an upperlevel English course on William Faulkner [and] when I learned about my historyin my Africana studies course.Aside from those two occasions, I always treatedschool like a job and simply completed the tasks that were asked of me.However,in this class something different happened. 210 Writing about Jeff s Former StudentsI can remember in the beginning of the term when the books were firstintroduced to us, I had to admit I was not very excited.I saw a common theme inall of them and I thought to myself I already have enough sadness in my life,why would I want to study depressing literature? While reviewing the list ofbooks I noticed toward the end that the professor s name was on one of the booksas the author.I was a little skeptical at first but as I began to warm up to the classand understand what the aims were I started to look forward to reading EmpathicTeaching.As I have stated in other papers, I found Empathic Teaching a muchmore interesting read because of its realness.The idea that there are otherpeople who feel the same way as I do, or have been through very similarexperiences is very comforting.Especially considering the book is based onpeople who took a class very similar to this.It certainly changed the whole classexperience for the better.I would definitely have to agree with the idea that an empathic approachto teaching enables students to understand themselves and their classmates inways that are impossible in more traditional argumentative classrooms. Collegeis a very important time in a career-minded person s development.College is alsowhere a person gains a lot of the abilities and experience needed to succeed.Atthe same time, when a person is a student it is very easy to feel like you are justanother student identification number.Empathic teaching changes that type ofscenario.Students rarely get close to any of their professors because of large classnumbers or simply because the student/professor relationship is more like abusiness.However, with a class that includes empathic teaching a student is ableto open up to his or her professor and I think it makes a world of difference in thestudent s outlook of the class.Personally, I loved the idea of being able to sharemy painful moments and confide in somebody who I felt was trustworthy, all thewhile improving my writing ability.The second advantage of empathic teachingis the support one gets from being around people who share the same pain.Everybody has things in their past or inside that bothers them and it is reallytherapeutic to be in an academic setting to discuss those types of feelings.Although we were all discussing and writing about painful personal memoriesI never once got the feeling that we were in some sort of support group.The lectures remained just as professional and always led to positive studentfeedback.I do not think I would have ever read a book like Empathic Teaching had Inot taken Love and Loss.Not to say that I am close minded but a book like thatmost likely would have not sparked my interest.I find that most English majorsdo not read enough literature for the sake of reading it.We have to read so muchtheory that we never have enough time to read other genres of English [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]