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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Our report on How Students Learn Best shows that learning is optimised through a structured and sequenced approach to explicitly teaching new content. Introducing new information is most effective when teachers break it down and teach it explicitly using explanation, demonstration and modelling, especially when students are new to that learning area.
This practice guide will help you understand ways to:
- explain, demonstrate and model the content of learning so students can practise and acquire new knowledge and skills
- minimise the risk of cognitive overload that could interfere with students’ retention of new knowledge and skills
- support students in drawing on their foundation of knowledge and skills to build a deeper understanding, before undertaking more complex tasks with less guidance.
Keywords: explicit teaching