San Francisco Adult Entertainment: Beyond textbook teaching: one Oakland teacher’s approach to learning

Dr. Hardee says kids learn best through reflecting and interpreting, not just rote memorization.
HARDEE: I actually believe that all children can learn. I actually believe that each student in my class has the potential to be anything they want to be. And I believe it’s my job to get them to see this and then to believe it.
To many of us, this might seem like a simple principle of teaching. But Dr. Hardee says that’s often not the case. She gave me an example of when she first started teaching and many of her colleagues assumed the kids couldn’t excel.
HARDEE: It was one of the kinds of schools that you see on movies. We’re talking drug dealers, prostitutes, condoms on the yard, trash on the yard … You could smell the boys’ bathroom from the front door.

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