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Introduction to AERO's model of learning and teaching

This 20-minute introductory course is designed to help teachers explore AERO’s model and how they can use it to develop their teaching practice.

Extend and challenge: Primary and secondary

This video demonstrates how teachers extend and challenge knowledge in a range of Australian classrooms.  

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Achieving lasting change

This 10 to 15 minute microcourse explores a deliberate and structured approach to implementation, and how this approach can support lasting change in teaching practices. It is designed for all school leaders and members of school implementation teams.

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Partnering with schools to refine and enhance AERO’s School Writing Instruction Framework: Case study

This case study shares AERO’s learnings from working with schools to trial and develop our School Writing Instruction Framework.

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Escalated behaviour: Creating calm, focused classrooms

This practice guide will assist teachers with creating calm learning environments, helping to prevent emotional and behavioural escalation, and supporting students when it does occur.

Persistent disengaged and disruptive behaviour: Creating calm, focused classrooms

This practice guide will assist teachers in supporting students to focus on learning when a range of factors impact their engagement and attention and lead to persistent disengagement and disruption across multiple lessons.

Practice resource

Building an effective team and a specific implementation goal: Leading implementation

This module provides schools with an introduction to leading the implementation of evidence-based teaching practices through an effective school implementation team.

Practice resource

Building and operating an effective school implementation team: Leading implementation

This practice resource is designed to help school leaders form and maintain an implementation team to drive successful implementation efforts in their school.

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Meeting regularly as a school implementation team for success: Leading implementation

This practice resource and meeting agenda template is designed to help school implementation teams stay focused on the components of a deliberate and structured approach to implementation.

Building and operating an effective implementation team at Mount Hutton Public School

This video shares a school implementation team's experiences using a deliberate and structured approach to embed explicit instruction at their school.

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Example of a secondary school implementation plan

This example has been created as a supporting resource for secondary school implementation teams to refer to when developing their own implementation plans.

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Writing paragraphs

This practice guide will help teachers and school leaders understand different paragraph types. It’s part of a suite of resources designed to support explicit writing instruction in the classroom. It can be used in conjunction with AERO’s guides on simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences and sentence combining.