The cultivation of students' healthy personality needs to be rooted in a humanized ethical field, and teacher empathy is the spiritual background of this field. As an internalized emotional endowment of educators, teacher empathy is not inherently solidified, but can be dynamically generated through conceptual infiltration, environmental influence and practical refinement. Teacher empathy has its own unique structural connotation and important value implication. It is conducive to promoting teacher-student emotional resonance, opening the window of the student's mind; helping to enhance the teacher-student cognitive empathy, construct a good teacher-student relationship; helpful to promote teacher-student behavioral concerns, cultivate students' sympathy. In view of this, this paper proposes the way to cultivate teachers' empathy from the conceptual deepening, environment creation and practice deep cultivation, aiming to cultivate empathetic teachers and students, and build a warmer and more harmonious educational environment.

Jingchen Feng. Teacher Sympathy: Conceptualization and Cultivation Mechanisms in Educational Practice. Frontiers in Educational Research (2025), Vol. 8, Issue 4: 239-244. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2025.080435.

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