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Practice guide
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.
Explainer
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.
Research report
How students learn best: An overview of the evidence
This paper highlights the impact aligning teaching practices with how students learn has on educational outcomes. It underscores the importance of evidence-based practices that enhance learning for all students.
Explainer
Knowledge is central to learning
This explainer provides an introduction to the role of knowledge in learning, implications for effective teaching, and describes how building background knowledge facilitates higher-order thinking and learning outcomes.
Explainer
Managing cognitive load optimises learning
This explainer gives a brief introduction to cognitive load, focusing on ways to manage it for effective and efficient learning.
Practice resource
Teaching for how students learn: A model of learning and teaching
Teaching practices that are aligned with how students learn are the most effective in improving education outcomes for all. There is strong evidence about the processes that occur during learning.
Project
How students learn
Our work on how students learn best (also known as the science of learning) connects cognitive science, neuroscience and education psychology research on the learning process with practical teaching implications.
Article
One in five secondary students has not mastered basic skills: How do schools help them to catch up?
New research from the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) and Monash University has identified a potential solution that could dramatically improve learning for those students who are significantly behind their peers.
Year 8 Science: Example unit plan
This unit plan was developed by Ochre Education and science teacher Darcie Clarke. It outlines her approach to teaching a Year 8 unit of science on cells, organs and tissues.
Lesson plan template
This editable lesson plan template was produced by Ochre Education and the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO).
Unit plan template
This editable unit plan template was produced by Ochre Education and the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO).
Year 8 Science Unit 1, Lesson 10: Example lesson plan
This example lesson plan was developed by Ochre Education and science teacher Darcie Clarke. It outlines her approach to teaching a Year 8 science lesson on conducting a diffusion experiment.