Guides & resources

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.

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.

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

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.

Explicit instruction is a teaching practice that evidence says makes a difference. In this video, Melissa Garstang-Leary explains how she uses explicit instruction in her English lessons.

Explicit instruction is a teaching practice that evidence says makes a difference. In this video, Sue Davis explains how she uses explicit instruction in her mathematics lessons.

Explicit instruction is a teaching practice that evidence says makes a difference. In this video, Darcie Clarke explains how she uses explicit instruction in her science lessons.

This rubric outlines a set of capabilities to do with the evidence-based practice of explicit instruction.

See how the Year 1 teachers at Loxton Primary School use explicit instruction in their classroom.

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.

This guide describes a set of teaching practices that have been found to improve student achievement by making instruction explicit.