Sal Khan: Let’s Teach for Mastery – Not Test Scores
In the speech “Let’s Teach for Mastery – Not Test Scores” Sal Khan effectively uses rhetorical appeals to persuade his audience to think the way he thinks about reforming the education system. Khan spoke at a Ted Conference about how students in the education system have gaps in their learning due to the way they are taught in school. Our education system is almost in a way “ancient”. We have taught the same way in classrooms for years and have the same problems in the classroom. There have been little tweaks and such over the years, but none has addressed the real issue that children just are not learning sufficiently. We are a very modern society and the education system has been lagging. …show more content…
Sal Khan founded Khan Academy in 2008 and it has helped thousands of people. Before he created his online website he was a hedge fund analyst and before that he attended Harvard University. He’s a teacher, entrepreneur, a board member of Aspen Institute, and the executive director of Khan Academy. He’s a very credited man for all the work he has done and is a very well-known person for his effort in the education community. Since Khan is well known and has been a part of the education community for years’ people who have heard his speech have put trust into him and what he is saying. They side with him in his point of view just because they know he is well educated in what he …show more content…
There was only one example of this he used, but it was a very effective example to help is argument. The system of mastery Khan talks about is to let a student learn something at their own pace and master it. In Winnetka, Illinois over a 100 years ago they did a mastery based learning program. What they did was specialize a learning program for each individual student. Each student had their own worksheets that fit them and did on demand assessments. He said they saw great results but it would difficult to implement the program everywhere because of the limits they had on resources. That was a 100 years ago though. Back then they didn’t have the technology we have today. Khan says that “But now today, it 's no longer impractical. We have the tools to do it. Students see an explanation at their own time and pace? There 's on-demand video for that. They need practice? They need feedback? There 's adaptive exercises readily available for students.” (Ted Talk 6:20) He uses the fact that we have every resource ready at the touch of our fingers to implement mastery based
In the speech “Let’s Teach for Mastery – Not Test Scores” Sal Khan effectively uses rhetorical appeals to persuade his audience to think the way he thinks about reforming the education system. Khan spoke at a Ted Conference about how students in the education system have gaps in their learning due to the way they are taught in school. Our education system is almost in a way “ancient”. We have taught the same way in classrooms for years and have the same problems in the classroom. There have been little tweaks and such over the years, but none has addressed the real issue that children just are not learning sufficiently. We are a very modern society and the education system has been lagging. …show more content…
Sal Khan founded Khan Academy in 2008 and it has helped thousands of people. Before he created his online website he was a hedge fund analyst and before that he attended Harvard University. He’s a teacher, entrepreneur, a board member of Aspen Institute, and the executive director of Khan Academy. He’s a very credited man for all the work he has done and is a very well-known person for his effort in the education community. Since Khan is well known and has been a part of the education community for years’ people who have heard his speech have put trust into him and what he is saying. They side with him in his point of view just because they know he is well educated in what he …show more content…
There was only one example of this he used, but it was a very effective example to help is argument. The system of mastery Khan talks about is to let a student learn something at their own pace and master it. In Winnetka, Illinois over a 100 years ago they did a mastery based learning program. What they did was specialize a learning program for each individual student. Each student had their own worksheets that fit them and did on demand assessments. He said they saw great results but it would difficult to implement the program everywhere because of the limits they had on resources. That was a 100 years ago though. Back then they didn’t have the technology we have today. Khan says that “But now today, it 's no longer impractical. We have the tools to do it. Students see an explanation at their own time and pace? There 's on-demand video for that. They need practice? They need feedback? There 's adaptive exercises readily available for students.” (Ted Talk 6:20) He uses the fact that we have every resource ready at the touch of our fingers to implement mastery based