<p>I know that Exeter and a few other schools use the "Harkness" method of teaching, but what other schools use the same general method, but not necessarily called Harkness?</p>
<p>SPS uses harkness but we don't call it anything, actually harkness himself went ot SPS</p>
<p>Harkness:
n., v., adj.</p>
<ol>
<li>*A method of pwning n00bz.<a href="%5BI%5Dn.%5B/I%5D">/I</a></li>
<li>*An action of utmost pwnage that allows one to pwn n00bz in an effective manner. <a href="v.">/I</a></li>
<li><p>*Describes a 1337 object (often associated with the table).<a href="%5BI%5Dadj.%5B/I%5D">/I</a></p></li>
<li><p>*Dude, you'll get pwned by Harkness<img src="%5BI%5Dn.%5B/I%5D" alt="/I"></p></li>
<li><p>*Whoa, like he totally got Harknessed.<a href="%5BI%5Dv.%5B/I%5D">/I</a></p></li>
<li><p>*Dude, like check out that Harkness Table<img src="%5BI%5Dadj.%5B/I%5D" alt="/I"></p></li>
</ol>
<p>Synonyms
Pwnage, Domination, H4x0r3d</p>
<p>Antonyms
Traditional Methods of Teaching</p>
<p>That is my contribution. I am bored. :)</p>
<p>Thanks Jonese8</p>
<p>I like your definition choas</p>
<p>Im pretty sure most schools use it in some way... just not in every classroom</p>
<p>Many independent schools (with a small class size) will use a table and/or a Harkness-style of teaching for the humanities. You need to pay a licensing fee and use specific tables if you want to use the name "Harkness." I don't know if any training is included in the Harkness licensing.</p>
<p>Lawrenceville uses it. Choate told me they sometimes use it but mostly they just have like regular classes. Deerfield I believe sometimes too. Not too sure though</p>
<p>I think Kay said that Choate uses it in English. Good. :) I wouldn't want to use it in Math, though, you know?</p>
<p>What's the whole process around a Harkness table? In Math, do you just TALK about the subject?</p>
<p>The Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, NY uses it</p>
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<p>Total loss on your part. Math at Exeter is the real deal. What makes it so is the problem sets, the sharing of how an individual approached the solution. When entering the class problems are posted on the board........by students. Too bad you don't want that group experience for I learned much and made great progress in my math courses using Harkness.</p>
<p><a href="http://math.exeter.edu/dept/materials/%5B/url%5D">http://math.exeter.edu/dept/materials/</a></p>
<p>yeahhh i love math exeter very dearly. my teacher encouraged me to be as lazy as possible, and find the absolute easiest way to solve every problem ^.^</p>
<p>yep like hazmat said, we do about 8 of those problems a night, and at the beginning of class, kids can put up solutions. then we go over the problems, kids can discuss their methods, and then teacher can help, provide insight, etc.</p>
<p>the cool thing is that its all word problems, and we never really just "learn" a theorem. we have to "discover" the theorem for ourselves.</p>
<p>I think it would be pretty cool to use Harkness for math...you probably get to understand math a lot better by actually talking about it, instead of just memorizing it. I bet you remember the stuff you learn a lot better.</p>
<p>like blee said at my school we just memorize theorems, but I would probably remember them a lot better if we "discovered" it</p>