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Practice guide
Teach explicitly
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.
Research report
Promoting equity for multilingual children in early childhood
This report explores the experiences, in early childhood education and care and at home, that appear to contribute to more equitable outcomes for emerging multilingual children.
Explainer
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.
Practice resource
Language and communication: Trajectory
This early childhood learning trajectory looks at children’s progress in language and communication, to help you plan the next steps in their learning and development.
Video
Explicit instruction in English
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.
Video
Explicit instruction in mathematics
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.
Video
Explicit instruction in science
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.
Practice guide
Engaging with families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds: ECEC practice guide
This resource details strategies for engaging families from culturally diverse backgrounds, families with English as an additional language, and families from refugee backgrounds.
Practice guide
Engaging with families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds: Schools practice guide
This resource details strategies for engaging families from culturally diverse backgrounds, families with English as an additional language, and families from refugee backgrounds.
Practice guide
Supporting linguistically diverse families through English classes: Case study
The following case study has been created by Schools Plus, with the support of Darling Heights State School, as an example of engaging with families to support student learning in primary school.
Practice resource
Explicit instruction rubric
This rubric outlines a set of capabilities to do with the evidence-based practice of explicit instruction.
Explainer
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.