What is Deeper Learning?

Deeper Learning Tasks

Are challenging and open ended
Result in multiple and complex answers
Are personalized and designed with students
Are linked to real questions of importance
Connect ideas to broader frames and concepts
Mirror the activity of adults working in the field
Challenge students to create knowledge rather than receive it
May require collaboration for success
Result in products that are shared beyond the classroom














Deeper Learning Teachers/Mentors:
Pose tasks that are appropriately challenging
Refrain from giving answers
Ask questions that push understanding
Create an environment for intellectual play
Scaffold when necessary, but only when necessary
Act as intellectual guides rather than experts

Deeper Learning Students:
Analyze, synthesize, and create (vs. simply recall and apply)
Grapple with uncertainty
View failure as a possibility and opportunity
Do most of the mental work themselves
Take increasing responsibility for structuring their work
Demonstrate self efficacy and meta-cognition
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