Exit slips are an easy way to gather formative assessment data after a lesson or sequence of learning. 

There is a great deal of evidence that families play a critical role in their child’s learning and development.

There is a great deal of evidence that families play a critical role in their child’s early learning and development. So how can primary school teachers best work with families to support student learning?

Explicit instruction involves fully explaining and effectively demonstrating what students need to learn. This guide outlines key practices for using explicit instruction in the classroom.

This rubric outlines a set of capabilities to do with the evidence-based practice of explicit instruction. It can help teachers and their teams implement explicit instruction by demonstrating a shared understanding of what it looks like in practice.

Focused classrooms maximise students’ on-task learning time by minimising disruptive behaviour and disengagement. This guide outlines key practices for creating focused classrooms.

Formative assessment refers to the variety of methods teachers use to gather and interpret information about student learning as learning is taking place. This guide outlines key practices for using formative assessment in the classroom.

This rubric outlines a set of capabilities to do with the evidence-based practice of formative assessment. It can help teachers and their teams implement formative assessment by demonstrating a shared understanding of what it looks like in practice.

This guide outlines key practices for using mastery learning in the classroom.

These tools can be used to examine your school’s approaches for engaging with families to support student learning.

Targeting sentence-level instruction is critical in order to develop foundational skills in writing. Sentence combining is an instructional technique used to improve sentence quality, complexity, and variety.

Spacing and retrieval practice can improve students’ long-term retention of their learning. This guide outlines key practices for using spacing and retrieval in the classroom.

A writing instruction template for primary school principals and leaders.

The intent of this framework is to show how the school approaches and implements the effective teaching of writing and writing assessment, and to evaluate opportunities for further improvement.