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Download full textJohnson, Melissa C. – CEA Forum, 2015
This essay is grounded in the scholarship of teaching and learning and will focus specifically on the ways in which the Harry Potter books highlight the diversity of learning and teaching styles; privilege active experiential learning and problem solving over passive rote learning; and emphasize the benefits of collaboration over competition.…
Descriptors: Literature, Books, Fiction, Teaching Styles
Direct linkTaylor, William – Independent School, 2014
In the June 2010 "Harvard Business Review," Dan Ariely, a professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University, wrote a column entitled "You Are What You Measure." In it, he thoughtfully prods business leaders to consider the problematic correlation between the tools for measuring progress and actual…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Rote Learning, Private Schools, Educational Objectives
