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- They’re quirky.
- They don’t always smell great.
- But I really love teaching middle school. (LAUGHS).
- They’re pretty amazing.
- And it’s a really pivotal age,
- in terms of instruction and learning.
- If you’re able to make an impression at that age,
- it can really set students down a path
- to be really successful
- and have a lot of opportunit[ies] and options.
- I really enjoy teaching math
- because I feel like, too many times,
- students have a really terrible experience with math.
- And so, I’m really passionate about
- filling in those gaps with kids,
- and creating a meaningful math experience for them
- that allows them to sort of re-embrace math
- and a love for mathematics.
- When I started [at] the beginning of this year,
- students were tremendously below grade level.
- These are sixth graders that enter this school [at]
- anywhere between a second-grade level to,
- I think, the higher range being at
- a beginning fourth-grade level.
- So, on average, about two years [to]
- two and a half years, behind.
- I was at the charter school conference
- in San Diego [California] last year.
- And Sal Khan spoke at the conference
- about Khan Academy.
- It created a little bit of a spark.
- And I was sort of--
- (Probably, it was a little disruptive.)
- But [I] was talking to the people sitting next to me,
- and being like, “Oh, I want to do this in my classroom.
- I don’t know how we’re going to do it.
- I’m going to go rogue, if I have to,
- and find the computers and make this happen.”
- And so, after hearing Sal speak at the conference,
- I went back and just went with it,
- and started putting my students
- [who] were struggling on Khan [Academy].
- They were really into it.
- I think, given the demographic that we teach,
- just agewise, and the generation we teach,
- technology is so heavy in their lives.
- Everywhere they are, it’s technology.
- They're really excited to be using Khan Academy.
- They were like, “Yeah! I got this.
- I can do division now.
- I couldn’t do division before.”
- Using the data, I can break students into groups;
- I can target [specific] students
- who are struggling in certain areas.
- I can also see students as a whole.
- Like if, for instance,
- the class completes a module on "least common multiple,"
- and they’ve all mastered it before I introduce it in the class,
- then I know, “Hey, this isn’t something
- I need to spend as much time on.”
- So, as a teacher, it’s freed up learning time
- for me to use time more efficiently, as well.
- And that’s really helped me,
- as a teacher in my classroom,
- to really push kids,
- helping them make progress towards the next grade level,
- but also helping them make progress
- just as mathematicians in general.
- When I started at the beginning of this year,
- some of them liked math --
- a lot of them didn’t like math.
- And Khan [Academy] has been
- an incredibly valuable tool,
- in terms of just buying them in.
- I have one student, specifically, who stands out,
- when I think of him.
- He’s like “Oh, I used to hate math.
- And now, now I really love it.”
- They’re not only accessing the sixth-grade curriculum,
- but they’re also succeeding
- [in] the sixth-grade math curriculum.
- Some of the students have made
- two years growth, mathematically.
- Khan Academy allows them to go back
- if they didn’t get it.
- Or if they got it,
- to engage in a different type of mathematics.
- It’s just really awesome to see them there,
- on Khan Academy, doing their thing,
- searching for videos --
- tying it back to what we’re learning in class,
- and being motivated
- to take charge of their own learning.
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