In our new book, On Becoming

In our new book, On Becoming an Effective Teacher -- Carl Roger's last book -- co-authored with Rogers, Reinhard Tausch (who gave us his research chapter on Empathy just before he died this year), and me, we present the largest field studies ever done on Effective teaching (in 42 States and 7 countries by Dave Aspy and Flora Roebuck) showing that the three most important traits for the most effective teaching are Empathy, Caring (Rogers called it "Prizing"), and Genuineness: http://www.routledge.com/education/articles/routledge_education_author_o....
The book is available here: http://deepwaterspress.com/www.deepwaterspress.com/New_Book_in_2013%21.html
Empathy was found to be even more important than competence in the subject matter!

Here's to twittering about Empathy!

Hal Lyon