Background
For all students to benefit from effective teaching, evidence-based teaching practices need to be successfully implemented. To support schools with this complex work, the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) has developed a deliberate and structured approach to implementation.
The resources in this collection explain the approach and discuss insights from schools that use it. For guidance and tools to use this approach in practice, see our resource collection, Implementation in Schools: Practical Resources.
These resources are informed by key concepts from implementation literature and AERO’s work with Australian schools in the Learning Partner project.
Resources in this collection
Why implementation matters and how the approach was developed
This discussion paper and summary provide background on a deliberate and structured approach:
Understanding the approach
A deliberate and structured approach is grounded in school context (the ‘where’), focuses on evidence-based teaching practices (the ‘what’) and relies on 4 implementation components (the ‘how’):
- using a staged approach
- addressing enablers and barriers
- using implementation strategies
- monitoring implementation outcomes.
This diagram shows how the components of a deliberate and structured approach fit together:
For a print version of this diagram, you can download Implementing evidence-based teaching practices: Taking a deliberate and structured approach (PDF, 425KB).
These explainers set out the key research and ideas for each component:
Learning from schools using this approach
These discussion papers share insights from schools using a deliberate and structured approach to implement explicit instruction: