Learning Inside the Classroom (Jacobs Center - CCWD Workshop 2019)

Learning Inside the Classroom: What We Know and Do Not Know About the Role of Curriculum, Teachers, and Peers

November 11, 2019

This interdisciplinary workshop, organized jointly by the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development and the Center for Child Well-being and Development, brings to-gether international experts studying the role of teachers, school curriculum and peers.

The aim of the workshop was to obtain a better understanding of how these key aspects of education affect child and youth development. There were presentations on adaptive learning, student-teacher interaction, teacher education and teacher incentives as well as peer effects and the impact of peer personality on performance.