Mansfield

1. Mansfield

2. Leading the Way to Accelerating Math Achievement Bill Hanlon

3. What are you doingto improve instruction?

4. Organizing Student Learning5 + 1 • Instruction, concept development-linkage • Note taking • Homework • Test Preparation • Assessment Bill Hanlon bill@hanlonmath.com 800.218.5482

5. +1 • Student-teacher relationships

6. Answering the Question: What are you doing to help my child learn?

7. Rules in Mathematics Don’t make sense!

8. Good News! • Teachers are already employing many of the best practices needed to increase student achievement.

9. Best practices • Note taking • Homework • Tests

10. Components of an Effective Lesson • Before presenting a lesson, refer to the assessment blueprint for the unit. • Introduction • Daily Reviews • DailyObjective • Concept and Skill Development and Application • Guided / Independent / Group Practice • Homework Assignments • Closure • Long-Term Memory Review

11. Build on Strengths

12. What’s needed? • Refinement & Reinforcement of those practices.

13. Quiet Conversions • Change is difficult for people. • Culture: If I wait long enough, this too will pass

14. Best Practices Relentlessly supporting best practices will eventually crowd out poor instructional strategies.

15. Build Trust & Confidence • Students will work for teachers for no other reason than loyalty. • Law of Reciprocity

16. Increasing Student Achievement No simple answer- what works is work

17. It’s about you!!! You cannot and should not depend on products, programs or services to address the needs of your student population, close the achievement gap or increase student achievement.

18. Actions follow beliefs 10 simple 2-letter words

19. If it is to be, it is up to me

20. 2 Standards • My Kid • Common Sense

21. Student-Teacher Relationships • Treat your students the way you want your own children treated. • Build success on success. • Talk to your students. Be friendly. • Talk positively to your students about their opportunity to be successful. • Call home early with information and good news. • Make testing as much a reflection of your instruction as their studying. • Teach your students how to study effectively and efficiently (visual, audio, kinesthetic, concentration time). • Tell them you like them. • Go over expectations explicitly and give examples. • Build trust, make sure they know you are there for them by telling them you are. • Tell them you want them to succeed. • Continually answer the question; “What am I doing to help my students learn?”

22. Unsuccessful Students

23. Contributing Factors

24. Contributing Factors • How do you see your students?

25. Contributing Factors • How do your students see you?

26. Contributing Factors • What are you currently doing to motivate, to address, unsuccessful students? • Anything special for ELL, special education, or students living in poverty?

27. Contributing Factors • Belief Systems • Teachers believing in students • Students believing in themselves • Teachers believing in themselves

28. Contributing factors • What factors do you control?

29. Success on Success • Success on Success • Teach students how to learn effectively and efficiently. • auditory • visual • kinesthetic Concentration times

30. Reading Thinking Reflecting Organizing Writing Analyzing Visualizing Reviewing Remembering Recalling Studying

31. Expectations • Grade Distributions

32. Balance Balance in mathematics has been defined as: • Vocabulary & Notation • Concept Development & Linkage • Memorization of Important Facts & Procedure • Applications • Appropriate Use of Technology Balance should be reflected in assessmentsand in the delivery of instruction.

33. Vocabulary & Notation There is no more single important factor that effects student achievement than vocabulary and notation

34. Vocabulary • Find the degree of 4x2y3x5

35. Vocabulary • Best Bet? • Bet A • Probability of winning is 3/5 • Bet B • Odds of winning 3 to 5

36. Language Acquisition • Double meanings area volume operation power mean feet product

37. MLL • Math Language Acquisition

38. Speaking • Oral recitation • Speaking • Working in pairs (groups)

39. Oral Recitation Language Acquisition Teaches students how to learn Embeds in short tem memory

40. Classroom Oral Recitation • Procedure – Adding/Subtracting Fractions 1. Find a common denominator 2. Make equivalent fractions 3. Add/Subtract numerators 4. Bring down denominator 5. Reduce

41. Classroom Oral Recitation • Quadratic Formula

42. Time on Task Stake and local school districts usually determine the classroom time available to teachers and students. However, regardless of the quantity of time allocated to classroom instruction, it is the classroom teacher and school administrator who determine the effectiveness of the time allotted. According to a survey conducted by the American Association of School Administrators, teachers identify student discipline as the single greatest factor that decreases time on task in the classroom. Generally, teachers with well-managed classrooms, have fewer disciplinary problems. These classrooms typically have teachers who have established rules and procedures are in the classroom when the students arrive, and begin class promptly. They reduce the “wear and tear” on themselves and students by establishing procedures for make-up work, they arrange their room to accommodate their teaching philosophy and style, and they develop routines that increase overall efficiency. The benefits of establishing these classroom procedures and routines become apparent as the total time on task approaches the allocated time. When teachers begin class immediately, students view them as better prepared, more organized and systematic in instruction, and better able to explain the material. Students also see these teachers as better classroom managers, friendlier, less punitive, more consistent and predictable, and as one who values student learning. Routines like beginning class immediately, reviewing recently taught material, orally reciting new material, having students take notes, and ending the class by reviewing important definitions, formulas, algorithms, and the daily objective keep students engaged and on task. Quality time on task is not a “silver bullet” that can cure all the problems facing education. However, it can play an important role in increasing student achievement.

43. 1st Essential - Instruction

44. Content - Instruction • What you teach affects student achievement • How you teach it affects student achievement

45. Subtraction

46. When will I ever use this? • Pythagorean Theorem • Parabola • Circumference

47. Knowledge, Interest, & Enthusiasm

48. Use simple straight forward examples that clarify what you are teaching. Do not get bogged down in arithmetic.

49. Multiplication • by 11 • by 25

50. Different Ways to Measure the Same Standard