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Using technology in your classroom can be a huge
change, so we wanted to share with you some tips

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on the easiest way to use Khan Academy in
your classroom.

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And hopefully, this will help you to get started

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rather quickly.

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So, the first piece of advice that we have for you

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is to use Khan Academy in a way that is
completely supplemental.

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Instead of being concerned about having 
a perfect match of a video to a lesson,

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or, a perfect exercise that matches a lesson,
or a standard you are teaching.

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Instead, when you get started,
have students use Khan Academy

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just starting at the top of the Knowledge Map.

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In this way, it requires no prep on your end.
Students are immediately feeling

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successful in reviewing basic arithmetic
and math concepts that are important

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for a strong math foundation. And
it's giving you time to get familiar with


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the coach reports and all of the data
that comes through

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on the students' end.

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The second piece of advice we have
for you, is to give the students a routine

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amount of time every week, to use
Khan Academy. And,

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if you are using Khan Academy at school,
whether it's in a learning lab,

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or stations, or with a mobile card 
that you check out a couple times a week,

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we recommend that the amount of time 
you give students is at least 30 minutes.

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This is because it takes time to turn computers on,
to turn them off... and 30 minutes will give

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students time to go through those procedures
while also having time to actually be on Khan Academy.

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If you have a long amount of time -- 45 minutes
or an hour -- even better. And we'd also suggest

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that you give students 3-5 times a week
to work on Khan Academy.

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The third piece of advice we have for you,
is to set small goals.

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Here we're really thinking about the
first month of implementation --

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-- what should you hope to achieve?
One of those small goals that we'd recommend

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is to make sure that all of your tech
issues are resolved.

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In that first month you might realize that
you don't have enough bandwidth,

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or maybe the connection goes in and out ---
all of these technical difficulties can be very

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frustrating.

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So it's important within the first month
or two months to make sure that

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those issues are completely resolved.

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Along those lines, you wanna make sure that
your system and procedures, become efficient
and smooth.

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This means everything from making sure that
kids are not tripping over charging coords, and

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that computers are returned to the right places,

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and that students are really respecting
the technology and using the time effectively.

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All of those systems and procedures
take time to figure out.

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Another small goal that would be good to
have in that first month is to start looking at data.

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Maybe this means that you choose
just one report -- for instance the

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progress summary report. To start
looking at every day, every week,

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to become really familiar with it
so that it can start to inform your instruction.

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Finally, in this first month we think it's
reasonable to open up time in your classroom

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for peer-to-peer tutoring.

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This will probably start to happen
naturally, but we'd just like to

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encourage you to allow this to happen
in the classroom.

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It's a pretty powerful thing to see
a student -- not only show

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mastery over a skill -- but be able
to prove that mastery by teaching it

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to another student.

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So, these are all good goals to have
for the first month or so.

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We would say that these should be amongst
your top priority for this first month --

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-- instead of worrying about integration
into the curriculum, or having things work

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perfectly -- we would say: to start small
and to just start, in whatever way,

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makes the most sense for you,
and your students.