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Measuring wellbeing and belonging in children aged 3 to 8 years
To understand which wellbeing programs and practices adopted by early childhood education and care (ECEC) services and schools improve children’s outcomes, it is necessary to measure and track children’s wellbeing. This research summary shares some preliminary learning from work the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) commissioned on developing wellbeing and belonging measures for children aged 3 to 8 years.
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Submission to the Inquiry into Literacy and Numeracy in ACT Public Schools
AERO’s submission identifies 3 evidence-based teaching practices that should form the core content basis of the ACT’s support to schools. It recommends the ACT Education Directorate work with schools to implement these practices and outlines principles and support mechanisms for this.
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Establishing and maintaining rules: Their role in classroom management
This explainer focuses on establishing and maintaining classroom rules, describing how rules allow teachers to clearly state the behaviour expectations for all students in the learning environment.
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Teaching routines: Their role in classroom management
This explainer focuses on teaching routines, describing how explicit teaching of routines provides structure, predictability and consistency to support student learning.
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High expectations for student behaviour: Their role in classroom management
This explainer describes how maintaining high expectations for all students can positively impact their behaviour and readiness to learn.
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Positive teacher–student relationships: Their role in classroom management
This explainer describes how creating connections with students over time can help develop trust and positive relationships to support learning.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Skills for future literacy and numeracy learning: Research summary
This document summarises key findings and recommendations from an analysis of Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) data conducted by AERO in 2022.
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Transitions to school for children with disability or developmental delay: Research summary
This evidence summary supports AERO’s practice guide for transitions to school for children with disability or developmental delay.
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Submission to the Review to Inform a Better and Fairer Education System
AERO's submission included an overview of how student wellbeing is measured in Australia and highlighted opportunities to improve data collection and use of data in decision-making.