Setting the Stage for Deeper Learning
What separates a classroom where students are genuinely invested from one where they’re simply going through the motions?
Harvard professor Jal Mehta has spent years studying what deeper learning looks like, and found answers in some decidedly unexpected places. In this episode, we explore what sports teams and theater productions can teach us about student engagement, why the “tyranny of content” may be working against meaningful learning, and what changes when students get to actually do the work of a discipline rather than simply learn about it.
From rethinking the role of the professor to…
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