Teacher tips for using the mastery reports

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- So I use the Skills Report
to look at how my students

were progressing in each of the areas

of the Get Ready course.

And after I identified that
they had either mastered

the material or if they
needed remediation,

I knew what steps I could
take moving forward,

whether it be working a small group

with students that needed some extra help

or pushing that student further

into where they were going next

in our actual algebra I curriculum.

- Looking at the Skills Reports
and the Activity Reports

really helps me to figure
out what the students

have been focusing on,

what they do need help with,

and where I can direct them
to go for future use in Khan.

So when I look at the Skills Report,

I look to see not only
what my students have done

and how much time they
might've spent on it,

but I also look to see if
they've leveled up or down

on their skills, which is
extremely helpful on that report.

When we talk about specific skills

that the students and
I focus on one-on-one,

it's awesome to be able
to go and look back

to see if they've actually taken that path

or if they haven't,

it's nice to be able to look at the skills

that they've actually focused on

and encourage them to maybe
move on to something new

or something a little more challenging.

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- When it comes to groupings,

Khan Academy makes it really easy too.

So if a kid is taking a unit
test kind of as a pre-test,

what they'll do is that
report will show me the kids

that already have it mastered,

the kids that need some support,

and maybe the kids that
just haven't started it yet.

So what it'll do is it
will load automatically.

It'll tell me who's got it mastered,

who's familiar, who's proficient,

and maybe who has no idea what to do.

So after I teach a
lesson and the kids work

with those skills within that,

I can take a look at the
Mastery Progress Report,

I can refresh it and it'll tell me

these four kids, or however many it is,

are familiar, maybe they
need a little more support,

these are the kids that are proficient,

maybe they're ready for
some extension as well.

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- I use Course Mastery Reports
to check students' progress

on their course mastery goals biweekly

so that I can help them
reach their quarterly goals.

I assign the whole course
mastery at the beginning

of the year and I expected
students to complete

about 20% per quarter.

And I would give them a
goal of about 80% per year

before their AP exam.

I encourage them to complete
their quarterly goal,

see if they reached, and
if they did not reach,

ask what kind of help they need.

So I use Course Mastery Reports biweekly

to keep track of their status

on their course mastery goals.

- So if a child is really
struggling with, let's say,

division is kind of a complicated one,

and we see that our class average is 40%,

the greatest thing in the world

is when kids are like,
"Wait, who's at 40%?

Who can we help?"

And they all band
together and they all try

to help each other,

and we just see those averages climb

from the beginning of the
year to the middle of the year

to the end of the year.

It's really inspiring because then again,

the focus is on the learning.

It's less about the grade and it's saying,

"All right, what can we do?

What do we need to do to be
able to get our averages up?"

And the averages is where
the learning is coming from

and it's just, it's wonderful to see.