Engaging Emotions with Students

It’s okay to admit that school can be boring sometimes. I remember being a student and struggling to remember anything I learned from an especially boring class. When all your classes are boring, however, retaining information and performing well on exams becomes incredibly difficult. To counter this problem, neuroscientists tell us to engage our emotions when studying and try to relate the topics we discuss in the classroom with our day to day life. Here to tell us what that looks like, and why this is important, is neuroscientist Mary Helen Immordino Yang.