This Early Childhood Learning Trajectory looks at children’s progress in executive functions to help you plan the next steps in their learning and development.
Examples of practice demonstrate effective practice in different education settings. You can use them to think about how to apply the practice in your own context.
This checklist is a list of practical steps teachers can take to support the adoption of the evidence-based practice explicit instruction in their setting.
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.
In formative assessment, you gather and interpret information about student learning as it is happening in your classroom. It helps you to adapt your teaching to meet student needs.
Mastery learning is a way of designing units of work so that each set of tasks focuses on a particular learning objective and students must master a task to move onto the next one.
Spacing and retrieval involves separating learning over multiple lessons and providing opportunities for students to recall what they have learned. This helps to commit learning to long-term memory.
Understanding the cognitive science behind how students learn to read and the research on effective instruction makes it easier for educators to align policy and classroom teaching with evidence.