Compassionate Teaching: Unlocking the Potential of First-Generation Marginalized Students

by Amelia Leighton Gamel

Compassionate Teaching: Unlocking the Potential of First-Generation Marginalized Students provides thought-provoking insight and proven effective strategies to help instructors build community and develop rapport with and among marginalized students, profoundly increasing retention and persistence. Research and best practices are interwoven with real-life classroom stories from the author’s experience to encourage faculty to explore their core beliefs and empathically respond to students’ behaviors.

110 pages, Paperback

Published March 26, 2019

Reviews

[Jocelyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

"It would be inequitable as well as professionally neglectful to invite students to register for classes and live on campuses that lack resources, supports, a safe campus culture that values diverse populations, and knowledgeable faculty who are skilled in strategies that help students feel welcomed, understood, and valued. Colleges simply cannot ask students to be a part of campus community that does not provide them with the tools, resources, and supports they need; that would be setting students up for failure" (p. 105). In five short chapters, Gamel lays out some of those strategies that faculty can use to help first-generation marginalized students feel welcomed, understood, and valued.