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

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

And hopefully, this will help you to get started

rather quickly.

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

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

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

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

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

just starting at the top of the Knowledge Map.

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

successful in reviewing basic arithmetic
and math concepts that are important

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

the coach reports and all of the data
that comes through

on the students' end.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

frustrating.

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

those issues are completely resolved.

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

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

that computers are returned to the right places,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

for peer-to-peer tutoring.

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

encourage you to allow this to happen
in the classroom.

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

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

to another student.

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

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

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

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

makes the most sense for you,
and your students.