Meaning-Making in the Remote Classroom with Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang and Dr. Rebecca Gotlieb

“As we think about transitioning remotely, one move may be to create space and structured ways to help young people understand how to still engage in a reflective process when they stepped away from the screen. So we provide opportunities in front of the screen and then provide structure for how they might do that separately (afterwards). ”

How do we create a remote classroom experience where emotions are the shared currency? Join Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang and Dr. Rebecca Gotlieb as we explore the connections between emotions and cognitions in learning…and create strategies on how to incorporate them in the remote classroom.

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang is a social-affective neuroscientist and human development psychologist who studies social emotion and self-awareness across cultures, social emotional connections to cognition, to resilience and to morality, and implications for education. 

She is a Professor of Education, Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Southern California. A former public junior-high-school science teacher, she earned her doctorate at Harvard University.  

Her book, Emotions, Learning, and the Brain, turned me on to the notion of how emotions connect with learning.

Rebecca Gotlieb worked with Mary Helen at USC as a doctoral candidate and just completed her dissertation, titled: A Biopsychosocial Investigation of Adolescents’ Social-Emotional Meaning-Making.