<p>I know Exeter does, but I'm curious whether any other boarding school uses this method and what schools are they?</p>
<p>Basically all of them, when they figured out elliptical tables were better than rectangles... but some schools have the honor of saying they were first to use it. My interviewer at Lawrenceville was pretty crazy about it, so was the Exeter alumna who interviewed me. It also depends on what class, for example I hear that at Exeter, math class uses the Harkness Table to discuss methods of solving questions, ie different algorithms or equations.</p>
<p>Wikipedia says:
Harkness tables are used by Phillips Exeter Academy, Phillips Academy, Shady Side Academy, Loomis Chaffee, Mercersburg Academy, The Lawrenceville School, The Fieldston School St. Paul's School (Concord, NH), The Moses Brown School, The Pingry School, Memphis Jewish High School , Hathaway Brown School, Horace Mann School, Cushing Academy, The Hotchkiss School, Deerfield Academy, Palmer Trinity School, Asheville School, St. Paul Academy and Summit School, American Hebrew Academy, St. Mark's School of Texas, Middlesex School, St. George's School, The Masters School, Germantown Academy, Kingswood-Oxford School, Milton Academy, Tampa Preparatory School, The American School in London, The John Cooper School, Regents School of Austin, Rocky Hill School of East Greenwich, RI, Annie Wright School, Guilford High School, and The Ensworth School,The Hill School, The Taft School, and Choate Rosemary Hall.</p>
<p>:D
thank you</p>
<p>AHAHAH
Seikuu, my interviewer at Lawrenceville was pretty crazy about that as well; something about how the guy who made the harkness table method of teaching was a Lawrenceville grad, but happened to be working at Exeter at the time. :)
Not so much my Exeter interviewer.
:D</p>
<p>that's about 38-39 schools (I'm assuming I miscounted somewhere). However, it isn't in all the classes. At Middlesex, I visited a math, physics, French, and English class. English and math used them. Physics and French (that one surprised me) did not. </p>
<p>At Deerfield I visited a math class, which did not</p>
<p>What is ther Harkness method? I am curious because in recent years there has been some method of math that is used to teach kids who are hard of hearing with inner ear problems. For some reason, it is hard for them to "process" regular math in their brain due to inner ear connections, but this other method makes it very easy for them to understand math. COuld it be this method?</p>
<p>sunshadow, the harkness method of teaching is where the class is oriented around an oval-shaped table, instead of the traditional "row" desks.
there are pros and cons to this method of teaching.
con: you can't hide from the teacher or avoid speaking up in the discussion
pro: you can't hide from the teacher or avoid speaking up in the discussion
;D</p>
<p>sunshadow; the Harkness method isn't a method to help kids with ear problems that i know of, but its when there is one round/oval table where the students and teacher can sit around together to discuss ideas rather than the separate desks in most schools.
what you talk about sounds interesting though :/</p>
<p>haha hotchkiss
great minds think alike!
=D</p>
<p>absolutely ;D</p>
<p>You can add NMH to the list of schools that employ the Harkness method. I have seen it used in every humanities and language class I've visited in the past 5 years. I have not seen it used in math or science, but I will ask my son when he finally wakes up (home for the w/e and sleeping his Saturday away). Whenever I've visited a science class, we've watched a lab, and in math classes, the students have been at the board.</p>
<p>From what I understand, NMH has the harkness table for only some of it's classes.
I honestly think that classes like science and math should be done the "traditional way"
:)</p>
<p>thanks kelyme; i had a list of schools i was interested in (which was also separated into harkness/nonharkness) and NMH was one of the schools :)</p>
<p>Intrigue, what is up with us posting at the same time??
That's twice on the same thread... ;]</p>
<p>we must have some telepathic connection
or we're just amazing like that.</p>
<p>Both?
"It's like I have ESPN or something." - Mean Girls.
:D</p>
<p>wow that sounds amazing, i'm liking the harkness method</p>
<p>exeter uses harkness for all classes, lawrenceville does not.</p>
<p>I thought st andrew's in delaware used hte harkness method?</p>