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This resource outlines some strategies to embed the development of executive function and self-regulation in your early childhood education and care setting.

This resource outlines some strategies to embed early numeracy in your early childhood education and care setting.

A tool to help you use evidence to make decisions about a new or existing practice or program based on AERO’s standards of evidence.

A tool to help you use evidence to make decisions about a new or existing policy, program or other initiative based on AERO’s standards of evidence.

These checklists can be used to plan the implementation of your school’s approaches for engaging with families to support student learning.

This research summary explains the methodology for a data analysis of students' backgrounds and their influence on literacy and numeracy achievement.

A writing instruction template for primary school principals and leaders. Helps users examine how the school approaches and implements the effective teaching of writing and writing assessment, and evaluate opportunities for further improvement.

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.