Learning Transfer: Integrating Sport, School, and Life

Catalog description

The ultimate goal of education is to teach students course content and skills in the hopes that the learning and skills will transfer to other situations, helping students become better problem solvers and citizens in the real world. This course examines and scaffolds learning transfer in the context of sports into the classroom. In particular, we discuss learning through the pursuit of sports and athletic competition, and draw the analogs into effective learning practices for the classroom context. We will have particular emphasis on high performing teams, drawing analogs between athletic teams and study groups/group work in the classroom. This course also explicitly recognizes that students are often novices in learning and intentionally scaffolds the transfer process so students can detect, elect and connect learning across the two realms. This course is mandatory S/NC.