This question, did your professor care about you? That is something that I have informally started to ask in my classes because it isn't on our institution's formal survey. There is a human being on the other side of this thing that is particularly intriguing to me as it relates to that sense of care and it's a body of research I'd like to go and learn and discover more about. So far I get high marks on showing that I care what's been interesting is why though, and it has moved around every semester. It's slightly more emphasis on things early on as you would expect during some of the peak times of COVID,. Then it switched to be about feedback and the
Rob Eaton and Bonnie Moon share about building community in the college classroom on episode 470 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The better I understand students back stories, the more empathy and compassion I have for them.
-Rob Eaton