CCEA Teaching, Coaching, Evaluating, and Supervising offered by Bill Hanlon

Bill focuses on the following four principles in each of his courses:

1. Linkages: Allows teachers to introduce new topics in a familiar language, which makes students more comfortable in their learning. It also allows teachers to review and reinforce concepts and skills or address student deficiencies as they teach their assigned curriculum.
2. Examples Matter: Nothing ruins a lesson like a bad example. Using simple, straight-forward examples work, clarify, and don’t bog students down in needless arithmetic in initial instruction is key to student understanding and building student confidence. Those examples are followed by using repeated scaffolding to reach grade-level expectations.
3. Repetition Matters: Repetition is the mother of learning. It builds in the automaticity and familiarity students need to make decisions and be successful in Math.
4. Testing: Tests should be purposely designed to set students up for success not only on the unit or chapter tests, but also on high stakes tests such as PARCC, SBAC, ACT, or SAT. Students should clearly know what we expect them to know, recognize, understand, communicate, and be able to do before instruction begins.