David Kukla
David Kukla has a Bachelor of Arts in History from Oberlin College in OH and an Master of Arts in Social Studies Education from Columbia University in NY. He holds a ZDF from Goethe Institute in Germany. He believes in being a life long learner and has taken 46 credits in math and 32 credits in studio art at the University of Arizona and Pima Community College here in our beautiful city of Tucson. David has earned his Level 2 Teaching Certification from the American Taekwondo Association.
David Kukla teaches Pre-Calculus, Trigonometry and AP Calculus at Sabino High School. He creates an environment that challenges his students to excel. Mr. Kukla engages students continually and provides support before school, during lunch, after school, and most any other time because he is a committed educator. He consistently will podcast his lessons and uses Groupme to ensure that peer interaction in learning happens so that the students work to support each other in math. High expectations with continued support have helped his students achieve extremely high pass rates on the AP Calculus exams. Because of his reputation of excellence and his relationships with his students, his Sabino students communicate that they consistently excel in their university classes.
David is very dedicated to his students and is very good at engaging them in the learning process, through helping them when they need it, in school or out, weekday or weekend. He works to ensure that the outside of class time he commits to answering student questions via online class group chats on Groupme on evenings and weekends. Mr. Kula coordinates and runs AP Calculus study sessions every weekend. Even with a visual impairment he is able to sustain this commitment. As a past Taekwondo practitioner, he was close to a 4° black belt and during his time away from work, he is passionate about art that includes pottery, painting and drawing.
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