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Knowing how students learn helps you apply teaching practices well, by understanding why some practices are more effective than others. This article focuses on techniques and strategies that improve outcomes for students.

This handbook contains a collection of AERO's foundational classroom management practices.

This practice guide provides practical suggestions to build positive connections with your students leading to positive teacher–student relationships.

This explainer provides an introduction to explicit instruction, with a focus on explaining how it contributes to positive outcomes for students’ learning achievement and dispositions.

This paper highlights the impact aligning teaching practices with how students learn has on educational outcomes. It underscores the importance of evidence-based practices that enhance learning for all students.

This explainer provides an introduction to the role of knowledge in learning, implications for effective teaching, and describes how building background knowledge facilitates higher-order thinking and learning outcomes.

This explainer gives a brief introduction to cognitive load, focusing on ways to manage it for effective and efficient learning.

Teaching practices that are aligned with how students learn are the most effective in improving education outcomes for all. There is strong evidence about the processes that occur during learning.

Our work on how students learn best (also known as the science of learning) connects cognitive science, neuroscience and education psychology research on the learning process with practical teaching implications. 

This paper is the first in a series of Analytical Insights papers, which provide accessible, up-to-date analysis of educational datasets.

We look at who is not sitting the tests and why that matters.