Guides & resources

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

A tool to help educators and teachers use evidence to make decisions about a new or existing practice or program based on AERO’s Standards of Evidence.

This practice guide provides evidence-based, practical advice for teachers on how to teach sentence combining in the context of their classrooms.

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.

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

See how the Year 6 teachers at Loxton Primary School work to create a focused classroom from the beginning of the year.

Kerri Proctor, Head of English at Walford Anglican School for Girls, uses different formative assessment methods to track students' progress.

See how Mastery Learning is implemented in different classrooms at Trinity College.

This checklist is a list of practical steps teachers can take to support the adoption of the evidence-based practice mastery learning in their setting.

This example uses a Year 9 Physical Education lesson to demonstrate effective practice in different education settings.

This checklist is a list of practical steps teachers can take to support the adoption of the evidence-based practice formative assessment in their setting.

This example comes from a Year 7 English class where a formative assessment task was to gather data about students’ writing and interpretive skills.