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Explicit instruction is a teaching practice that evidence says makes a difference. In this video, Darcie Clarke explains how she uses explicit instruction in her science lessons.

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

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

This report aims to guide and catalyse further work towards building a better early childhood education and care (ECEC) system to serve all Australian children and families.

This rubric outlines a set of capabilities to do with the evidence-based practice of explicit instruction.

A tool to help you use evidence to make decisions about a new or existing policy, program or other initiative based on AERO’s standards of evidence.

These checklists can be used to plan the implementation of your school’s approaches for engaging with families to support student learning.

A writing instruction template for primary school principals and leaders. Helps users examine how the school approaches and implements the effective teaching of writing and writing assessment, and evaluate opportunities for further improvement.

Explicit instruction breaks down what students need to learn into smaller learning outcomes and models each step. It allows students to process new information more effectively.

See how the Year 1 teachers at Loxton Primary School use explicit instruction in their classroom.

Examples of practice demonstrate effective practice in different education settings. You can use them to think about how to apply the practice in your own context.