Empathy for the Instructor: A Reflection of Using Empathy-Based Pedagogy as a Graduate Teaching Assistant

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Contents

Introduction

What Exactly is Empathy-Based Pedagogy?

How Did I Teach it?

Empathy-Based Pedagogy in the Writing Classroom: Reflection, and Responsive Instruction

Grand Takeaways

Works Cited

About the Author

About the Author

Kristen Venegas is an adjunct lecturer for Irvine Valley College and Cypress College. She holds an MA in English with an emphasis on Rhetoric and Composition from Chapman University. Currently, she is rediscovering her interests rooted in rhetoric, writing, psychology and cognitive science. She hopes that the emails may never find her and continues to encourage her students to use writing as a tool to find and understand their place in the world.