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- [Jeremy] Hey everyone, this is Jeremy Schefen
at Khan Academy.
Wanna wish you a happy Friday
after week number five, can you believe it?
Since this all started.
I know, like, the way of doing things in the past
feels like the distant past all of a sudden.
But we really appreciated everything
that educators are doing across the country
to further students in this time of need.
And we especially appreciate your fellow-educator, Jessica,
who's calling in from Brownsville, Texas,
where she's an English and ESL teacher
and is using Khan Academy for the last two years
to serve her students in a really effective way.
So, Jessica, thank you so much for being here today.
- [Jessica] Thank you for inviting me, I appreciate it.
- [Jeremy] And just to give folks a sense of how
they can interact with you,
we're gonna go after some of the basic things about
Jessica's background as an educator,
how she recommends that you start using Khan Academy,
if you're just getting started this week.
But then if you have specific questions,
you can ask those via the GoToWebinar questions feature.
Just type them in and we'll take those
as we go into the session.
And Jessica can really walk you through
whatever's on your mind.
So, that being said, Jessica why don't you
tell folks a little bit about your own
educational adventure and how you got
to where you are as a teacher today?
- [Jessica] Well I'm an English, ESLL,
English One teacher in Brownsville, Texas.
Our demographics are pretty unique.
We have very high, low socioeconomic students
and I also have a large percentage of ESL students.
We have 2,500 students in my school.
We have six high schools.
And out of our 2,500 students, about 350 of them are EL's.
And we have about 100 students who are newcomers,
which means that they're at the beginning level,
as far as we can tell from English.
As far as English language learning.
So they are beginners.
I am certified as an ESLL English One teacher
four through eight and eight through 12 in Texas.
I also hold technology applications certifications
for eight to 12, grades eight through 12.
We are SIOP-trained.
We also embed a lot of technology into our classroom,
we're very lucky to have access, as ESLL teachers,
to iPads and Google Chromebooks,
and all the different technology that we can use.
So, we started using Khan Academy about
two years ago in the classroom.
And it was pretty interesting because
we found that a lot of our ESL students
lacked the basic grammar and functional
English language skills that we
didn't really have time to sit and teach
for long periods of times.
So we needed to find a way to kind of embed
those skill sets and those TEKs,
along with our ELPS, that we are required
to use in Texas, by using Khan Academy.
And it was really amazing because,
for our newcomers, we started off,
you know, two days a week for them.
And they really started picking up on the grammar basics.
You know, we went over nouns...
You know, verbs.
We went over punctuation and we used Khan Academy
as a way to bridge the gap.
And because it was visual...
And it allowed them multiple opportunities to kind of
do the questions without fear of failure.
So it was really, really great for them
because they were able to see it in
a non-threatening environment.
And we also used Khan Academy because I do
computer science after school with our ESLs.
So Khan Academy also has really great program
if you're looking for some interesting things in there,
like they have Pixar in a Box and they also
have computer science, so we use it across the board
in our school district.
- [Jeremy] Very cool and so...
Obviously, Khan Academy has all these tools
and there's all these other technology platforms out there
but if you were in the shoes of a teacher
who's just starting with technology
or just starting with Khan Academy today,
and trying to serve their English language learners,
but now over a remote distance,
are there any tips you would give them
for just getting started serving that audience?
- [Jessica] I would.
One is if you do have access to Google Classroom
and your ISD has logins for your students,
you can automatically log them in
to Khan Academy using Google.
And when you log them in, all they do
is they input their login credentials from the school,
which makes it so much easier to connect
to the actual classroom and then you're able
to give them the class code.
So that way they can sync with it.
That really helped us.
And we did it in small chunks when we first started.
When we started, 45 minutes a week.
And then we expanded to longer periods of time.
But we really focused on the skills
that they were missing.
Because we have our yearly STAAR end of course test
in Texas, our data is always pretty current.
So we look at what our students were struggling in
and then finding ways to kind of remedy
those areas, in order to strengthen them for the test.
So what we found was our kids really struggled
with editing and revising.
Because they didn't have the basic foundational skills,
so we started small, we started with nouns
and simple sentences.
And when we did the simple sentences,
we would embed the Khan Academy for the structure
and then we would bridge it to a piece of writing
and have them identify noun, verbs.
So they still get the reading and the writing,
and then we were able to those skills
and move the ones who were a little more advanced
could move on.
And the ones who struggled, we were able
to identify them more.
And be able to work on them one-on-one.
So it's about small chunks at first.
Until you get really comfortable with the program.
And I really liked that I could see,
and I would go and check, "Hey, did you do
"so-and-so assignment?"
and I could see whether or not they viewed the video,
I could see what they got on the assignment,
and I would tell them, "If you're struggling with
"the assignment and you didn't watch the video,
"you should probably go back and see where the video,
"what the video has to say before
"you even start the assignment."
- [Jeremy] Very cool, I think that's such an
important piece of advice right now,
when everything feels so overwhelming,
just start small.
One lesson, - [Jessica] Start small.
- [Jeremy] One assignment, if your student can
sort of get that experience under their belt,
before you move onto the bigger and bolder things.
- [Jessica] And what's really great is you can start,
if you do nouns, for ESL especially,
you have to work on the cognates,
depending on what their language is,
where they struggle.
Luckily, we're in an area where most of our students
are Spanish-speaking and most of the
people here are bilingual.
But that might not be so in other areas.
We also have a population of...
A population that speaks Tagalog.
So with that, it's really helpful to use,
like we use our Duolingo, we use our Khan Academy,
we use our Flipgrid in order to kind of bridge the language.
So what we do is we start with nouns
and then we give an assignment on nouns.
So everything connects...
together.
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