MMI Preparatory School recently purchased two Harkness tables to transform two classrooms into collaborative learning labs to help prepare students for the discussion-based learning courses they will ...

This week Upland Country Day School is starting the school year as the second middle school in the nation to incorporate the Harkness teaching method and Harkness tables at the middle school level ...

The classroom is filled with chatter—questions, comments, and, mostly, opinions fly around the room—yet Sarah Wadleigh, the teacher, sits quietly at the lectern doodling. The unfolding events are all ...

A large table replaces rows of desks when students are using the Harkness method at Stillwater Christian School. At the Harkness table, there aren’t teacher lectures or passive listeners. Instead, the ...

One of my great pleasures is serving as an evangelist for connected courses andConnectivist-inspired models of online learning. These are learning environments where the explicit goal of the course is ...

Dec. 7—Greta Johnston remembers the first day she stepped into Steve Jobe's classroom at Frederica Academy. Political posters and memorabilia filled nearly every visible space, on walls, shelves, ...

When you hear the word “classroom,” you might picture a room filled with desks, a chalkboard/white board, and a teacher standing at the front. The teacher is lecturing and asking questions, and ...

In 1930, oil magnate and philanthropist Edward Harkness made a gift to Exeter Academy (and several other eastern boarding schools) that was meant to revolutionize secondary school teaching. The gift ...