There has been a 40% drop in measured college student empathy since 2000 (Konrath, 2010). But is empathy really important for students? Empathy has been shown to improve test scores, develop leadership skills, strengthen classroom community, provide career skills, increase emotional intelligence, and reduce learner stress and reactivity. Given the major drop in empathy, can college students […]
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Go Fish Shuffle
After attending an On Course workshop, I was so excited about applying the new active learning strategies to my English courses that I came to think of my tool box as more of a treasure box. First, I used “Twenty-One” to teach summarizing and jazzed up the card exchange intervals with music. Next, I […]
