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Practice guide
Feb 2024

Teach explicitly

This practice guide will help teachers explain, demonstrate and model learning content explicitly in ways that manage cognitive load to support students with building foundational knowledge before they practise independently.
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Practice guide
Feb 2024

Monitor progress

This practice guide will help teachers check that students understand and can apply new knowledge and skills, and give additional instruction, guidance or feedback where necessary.
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Practice guide
Feb 2024

Explain learning objectives

This practice guide will help teachers create, explain and use well-informed learning objectives and success criteria and activate students’ prior knowledge.
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Summaries & explainers (2)

Explainer
Sep 2023

Explicit instruction optimises learning

This explainer provides an introduction to explicit instruction, with a focus on explaining how it contributes to positive outcomes for students’ learning achievement and dispositions.
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Explainer
Feb 2022

Explicit instruction

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.
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