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Guides & resources (10+)

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Introduction to AERO's model of learning and teaching

This 20-minute introductory course is designed to help teachers explore AERO’s model and how they can use it to develop their teaching practice.

Explain learning objectives: Primary and secondary

This video demonstrates how teachers explain learning objectives in a range of primary and secondary classrooms.

Teach explicitly: Primary and secondary

This video demonstrates how teachers teach explicitly in a range of primary and secondary classrooms. 

Research (2)

Research report

The impact of context on evidence-based practices: A rapid literature scan on formative assessment, explicit instruction and mastery learning

This report presents the findings of AERO’s rapid literature review on the effects of the evidence-based teaching practices formative assessment, explicit instruction and mastery learning on student achievement across contexts.

Research report

Use of evidence-based practices in schools: National snapshot

Using evidence-based practices (EBPs), and using them well, is a critical way to improve student outcomes. Evidence-based practices are educational approaches that are backed up by research evidence.

Summaries & explainers (2)

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.

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.

Other (1)

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Are we there yet? The long and winding road to evidence-based practice in Australian education

In May 2025, AERO CEO Dr Jenny Donovan gave a keynote on explicit instruction at the Advancing Effective Education Summit in Sydney.