What is the issue?

Hey guys, my name is Jack It.

I am a master student at Colorado State University Global

and I am saying education.

Um and I wanted to create this video as a

part of a project that I'm working actually a website

that I'm working and I'm going to post this video

on that website.

So that way it's there for everyone to see and

they can look at it and hopefully gain some some

techniques and some knowledge about kind of what I'm research

at the moment, which is learning gaps between different students.

Um and I kind of want to start this off

with a kind of preface at the front of this

video, because, you know, we've had Covid for the past

couple of years and I don't want to end Covid

too much.

I just kinda wanna, Can I give you guys a

breakdown of kind of what I was thinking and what

I was looking at when I was doing this research.

So I was looking at numbers from 2017, 2018 2019,

and a bit of 2016 because those were the most

recent years that were not affected by Covid.

And the reason that I say that is like Covid,

I feel like really affected the numbers where they weren't

really a true representation of what was going on, because

there's a lot of struggle during Covid having to switch

to the online format and not being in person in

class. Uh so I just kind of wanted to kind

of get that out of the way first and let

us know that those are the years I'm looking at

those are the big years, I was looking at a

doubt uh before that, but but those were the kind

of the four big years that I was looking at,

So let's just hop on them and let's talk about

what the issue is, and the issue is is that

there is a pretty significant gap here in the state

of Oregon where lower income students are not achieving as

much, and that should be concerning because we need to

find out why they're not achieving.

Um you know, it can't just be that they're lower

income and and that's kind of it, so we need

to figure out what that issue is and if there

is a gap in learning, what can we do to

help. Um and that's kind of where I'm coming in

and I think the first thing that we need to

do is understand that we can help, right, I don't

think there is a lot of thought in the uh

you know, in this room, we thought, well we can't

help, but I think it's important to reiterate these things

is that we actually really can help and we can

change the way that we teach or change the way

that we operate a classroom to help these students out.

So the first thing and that we need to do

is we need to understand the problem, right?

The problem is is that there is a uh issue

with lower income students and what I have found is

that the fact that they have not a lot of

time, right?

And that seems like strange to say, but they're, they're,

you know, one of the terms that I found um

was time poor.

Um, and being time poor means that you don't have

a lot of time, right?

And if your time for how are you going to

be able to function in school and do things that

you need to do for school, school is a lot

of work.

Um, I think everybody watching this video understands that school

is a lot of work.

And if you don't have the time to do that,

how are you gonna be able to succeed?

Right? And it's not so much the fact that, um,

you know, they don't let students who are lower ss

don't want to learn.

It's the fact that they just can't.

Um, and that's due to a lot of factors, sometimes

they're the breadwinner in the house sometimes.

Um, you know, they go from school and right to

work because they're the only ones making money um, in

the household because maybe parents are making enough money can't

make ends me, and then the other one is kind

of bringing food on the table or they're coming from

more dire circumstances and they're just surviving, right?

And that's the only thing that they can focus on

when they're home and not at school, right?

Um, so there's a lot of things that are on

these lower income students, because a lot of their time

is devoted to surviving.

So if they're surviving, they're not going to be able

to achieve the at the same rate as what some

other people might be able to achieve, and that's concerning,

Right? So, we we need to kind of understand that,

and we need to kind of tailor our teaching methods,

not necessarily directly to them, but at least directly to

an entire student body, because we're all going to run

into students that are of lower income and are going

to have the same struggles that um, you know, some

other lower income students have, and the nice thing about

this too is that if we can tailor it kind

of more towards that, that inclusivity, we're going to be

able to help our other students, right?

So it's not about just helping the lower income students,

about how can I get this lower income student to

where, you know, another student is achieving, and how can

I bring both of those students up to an even

higher level right?

To achieve even more, right?

It's not about bringing someone down, it's about pulling people

up, right?

So creating and using some some strategies and some techniques

and being creative and also simplistic is going to allow

us to help students and that's all that we're here

to do is we're here to help students and we're

here to scaffold, they're learning, scaffold their achievement, right?

Because we know that they can do it.

It's a matter of how they're going to do it

and I think that I can share some creative techniques

that are simple, easy to use um and that aren't

going to necessarily be a huge time constraint on on

our end.

Right? So can I just want to hop into strategies

and and these are, most of these are going to

be on my website.

Uh I think there's gonna be some more on here.

I kind of want to just go over Like I'm

gonna say like three.

Um and uh you know, you can see kind of

the rest rest on the website because all of them

are going to be hopefully beneficial, right?

And hopefully what they're going to allow you to do

is To scaffold some of this, this achievement.

So one of the things that I want to talk

about is creating more time now, how do we create

more time?

Well, one thing that we can do is we can

have a period zero or a period, you know, if

you have say six periods in your school day.

I know some schools are different, have a period seven

Now, I found that a lot of people preferred a

period zero one because it's earlier in the morning and

there's kind of more time in the morning, where as

at the end of the day, people just kind of

want to go home, right?

But if you have a period zero, what you can

do is you can create that time for students and

you can have that as a study hall or a

work time or even just quiet time though some of

that sounds or that quiet time might sound interesting because

like why would why would you need quiet time?

And I think part of that is that sometimes lower

income students and students in general just might need that

extra time to sleep.

And that sounds um you know, a bit odd.

But you know, if we're not allowing students that time

to rest, have that, uh you know, that that meditative

time, I think that I think we're not doing them

a favor.

And a lot of lower income students like I said

are just trying to survive.

So having that time where it's quiet and relaxed and

having them rest I think is going to help them

a lot.

Right? Because we don't really know what kind of background

they're coming from.

They can become from a really loud, chaotic environment and

if we can provide some stability, a flat line or

a baseline for them, I think that they will be

able to do a lot better because they'll be more

well rested.

They're they're not kind of that fight or flight mode.

Um which um I think adds to that that notion

of being time poor, right?

Um One of the other things or second strategy that

I think would be a Good 1 to use is

book checkouts.

And a lot of uh you know, people I've talked

to or kind of kind of intrigued by this one

and um you know, I would love to talk about

more with with some people because I actually work for

a school right now for some kids who have um

you know, have experienced a lot of, lot of trauma,

but um one of the teachers at that school actually

has a checkout system in her classroom.

Um and I always asked why, why do you have

this? You know, we have a library, what's, what's the

thought process behind this and the thought process behind it?

Was getting kids engaged, getting students engaged now have, trying

to have someone read Macbeth that, you know, comes from

a chaotic environment, probably not going to want to read

Macbeth. However, if you have um you know, a book

charlie and the Chocolate Factory, let's say, um they might

be more inclined to read that.

And if we can just get students to practice those

skills, then we're already heading in the right direction.

So getting those students that want to learn, but aren't

just interested because again, come from a chaotic environment, you

know, getting them to, to engage with that is going

to be a huge step in the right direction.

So, having that checkout system from class, having those books,

having though that, that system of, hey, let's start reading,

let's start practicing these skills is going to be huge.

And I think it's going to have a step or

a significant excuse me and a significant impact on how

they're doing in school because they're practicing those skills.

The last strategy that I want to, uh, focus on

our deadlines.

Now, this seems to be a pretty common practice and

um, you know, I don't want to change it to

too much, but you know, I think it's just important

to, to understand the deadlines, right?

So in most schools, what you'll have is you have

a deadline.

This is when something's do and if it's not turning

by, then it's concerned, late work and late work is

usually, uh, you know, taken as a penalty, Right?

So I've seen a percent each day, 5% every week,

letter grade every week.

Um, I've seen kind of all different sorts.

I would propose that It's a letter grade each week

up to three weeks.

The reason I say three weeks is because if it's

a letter grade every every week, that brings down to

70%,, right, Which is not a great, great, but it's

not bad grade either.

Right? Um, it's still, it's still something that they can

work off of.

Um, So after those three weeks, the max grade is

70%. Um, and then after, and then of course, you

know, whatever points that they had taken off, Right?

So if they miss, you know, Two questions, it might

be a 60% whatever it might be.

But the max grade that you can get 70% now,

the reason I am uh advocating for this is because

again, being time poor, well make it much harder to

achieve those deadlines.

Now, we can't just say, oh, you can turn in

whenever you want, but we can say that you can

still turn in, it's just not going to be at

full credit.

Now, what?

That does.

At least there's that safety net of like, I can

still work off of this grade and this will help

all students, right?

Um, it's not just the lower income students, but I

think that that is going to be more fair to

to to again, just how tough school is.

I mean, school only gets tougher as you progress through

those levels, right?

And those times those deadlines, excuse me, get harder and

harder to achieve.

And if you're don't have the resources to reach those

deadlines and you know, you get this penalty and penalty

and penalty and penalty, we're not going to be able

to achieve what we need to achieve.

So, those are my three strategies.

Start off of course, you can see, you know, the

rest of them on my website.

Also, you can sign up with your email and get

more strategies that I have to offer or techniques or

even just kind of daily reminders of what, what to

do and how to approach some situations.

But that's going to be it for me today guys,

and um really appreciate you stopping by checking out the

video. I hope to see you on my website.

Hope to see you on more videos and thank you

so much.

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