Explicit instruction

Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) – Explicit number fluency

This resource provides examples of using information and communication technology to develop students’ knowledge of number sequence and skills in counting from any starting point.

Here the classroom teacher demonstrates the use of information and communication technology to develop students’ knowledge of number sequence and skills in counting from any starting point. The teacher invites individual students to use the interactive whiteboard to set the starter counter from which students will count in unison by ‘twos’.

Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) – Explicit numeracy experiences

This resource provides an example of designing and implementing explicit learning experiences year 3/4 students.

In her first year of teaching, a teacher designs and implements explicit learning experiences for her class comprised of students at a year 3/4 level. She selects and uses content and resources for her numeracy lessons that are appropriate to the strengths and needs of individual students from diverse backgrounds. In the illustration, she develops teaching activities to assist students to understand the mathematical concepts of whole numbers, fractions and decimals. She is also able to use a literacy approach to support these numeracy activities. 

Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) – Explicit language teaching

This resource provides an example of using individual learning plans to cater to students.

A teacher in her second year of teaching, uses individual learning plans to cater for students in her year 1 classroom. She uses a lesson on 'What is happening in the story?' to explicitly teach comprehension, chronological understanding, phonological awareness and pragmatics (ie social language use). The teacher uses differentiated teaching and personal feedback to reinforce learning and behaviour to students.