Discussion Of Elijah's Three Obstacles In Education

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Elijah is a new staff member who faces three obstacles: Belief perseverance, functional fixedness, and overconfidence. If he doesn’t overcome these obstacles he could lose his job. Elijah is convinced that teaching without technology is the best way to teach kids. No matter how many times his co-workers tries show him facts that says otherwise, he refuses to believe it. This belief perseverance is stopping his class from learning the way other classes do. When the time calls for creativity, Elijah struggles to find uses for different objects. He looks at a box as a box, a book as a book, and a shelf as a shelf. While other teachers uses these objects as fun activities for the class, he uses them for their typical purpose. Other teachers has