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

This practice guide will help you reflect and take action to develop your practice with a greater understanding of:

*the learning benefits when students understand the objectives of a lesson and how they can be successful
*specific techniques and strategies you can adopt to understand students’ prior knowledge, create well‑informed learning objectives and success criteria and use them effectively.

This guide is one in AERO’s Tried and tested series on evidenceinformed teaching practices that make a difference. Teachers can use these guides to reflect on their classroom practice and inform their planning for future instruction.

Implementation checklists are a list of practical steps you can take to support the implementation of an evidence-based practice in your setting.

This checklist focuses on implementing explicit instruction.

Have I...

*Broken down the piece of curriculum/syllabus content down into smaller tasks for my students? (this is known as “chunking”)
*Removed any parts of information that are not relevant, necessary or at the correct level of challenge for my students? (see formative assessment for learning where students are at)
*Created a learning objective to establish what students will need to know and produce by the end of the lesson?
*Communicated this learning goal to my students, and explained how it links to their previous work?
*Sequenced the instructional tasks so that they build on each other so that students can see their improvement?
*Allocated time in the lesson for students to practise using the new information before moving onto the next section of work?
*Designed worked examples designed to guide students through their first interaction with the work?
*Provided students with scaffolds that increase in their complexity and decrease in their modelling of skills as student proficiency grows?
*Planned some opportunities for feedback, including giving my students time to action the feedback, before moving onto the next chunk of work?

This rubric outlines a set of capabilities to do with the evidence-based practice of explicit instruction. It can help teachers and their teams implement explicit instruction by demonstrating a shared understanding of what it looks like in practice.

This rubric outlines a set of capabilities to do with the evidence-based practice of explicit instruction. It can help teachers and their teams implement explicit instruction by demonstrating a shared understanding of what it looks like in practice.

This checklist can be used to plan the implementation of your school’s approaches for engaging with families to support student learning. It is based on work by Evidence for Learning, showing implementation in school as a series of stages relating to thinking about, preparing for, delivering, and sustaining change.
This checklist can be paired with AERO’s Promising approaches audit tool - primary classroom teachers, which will help schools determine the promising approaches areas requiring most attention.

This checklist can be used to plan the implementation of your school’s approaches for engaging with families to support student learning. It is based on work by Evidence for Learning, showing implementation in school as a series of stages relating to thinking about, preparing for, delivering, and sustaining change.
This checklist can be paired with AERO’s Promising approaches audit tool - primary school leaders, which will help schools determine the promising approaches areas requiring most attention.

This checklist can be used to plan the implementation of your school’s approaches for engaging with families to support student learning. It is based on work by Evidence for Learning, showing implementation in school as a series of stages relating to thinking about, preparing for, delivering, and sustaining change.
This checklist can be paired with AERO’s Promising approaches audit tool – secondary classroom teachers, which will help schools determine the promising approaches areas requiring most attention.

This checklist can be used to plan the implementation of your school’s approaches for engaging with families to support student learning. It is based on work by Evidence for Learning, showing implementation in school as a series of stages relating to thinking about, preparing for, delivering, and sustaining change.
This checklist can be paired with AERO’s Promising approaches audit tool – secondary school leaders, which will help schools determine the promising approaches areas requiring most attention.

Focused classrooms maximise students’ on-task learning time by minimising disruptive behaviour and disengagement. Research shows that students cannot learn as well in classrooms that lack consistency, have too many potential distractions or do not offer ample opportunities to engage. Teachers can create focused classrooms by implementing clear structures and routines, modelling appropriate behaviours, and actively engaging students in their learning.

Implementation checklists are a list of practical steps you can take to support the implementation of an evidence-based practice in your setting.

This checklist focuses on implementing a focused classroom.

Have I...

* established and explicitly taught positive rules for learning?
* developed routines that signal to students when learning is ready to begin and how learning will happen?
* organised my classroom to promote on task behaviour so that learning routines can be embedded consistently?
*explicitly taught the verbal and non-verbal cues about the rules and routines for learning to my students so that they can regulate themselves?
*set learning goals for my students that are both ambitious but achievable? (Consult your formative assessment data and mastery learning objectives to help with this)
*explored various options for participation that enable all students to participate in class activities? (for example, different types of grouping).

Formative assessment refers to the variety of methods teachers use to gather and interpret information about student learning as learning is taking place. Formative assessment allows teachers to monitor student learning and to adapt their teaching to meet student learning needs. It can also help with students’ learning retention by bringing what students have learned to the top of their mind. Formative assessment is most effective when it is a regular part of teaching and learning programs.

Implementation checklists are a list of practical steps you can take to support the implementation of an evidence-based practice in your setting.

This checklist focuses on formative assessment.

Have I...
* identified a way to determine where my students are currently at in their learning and the correct level of challenge for them? (either through a diagnostic task or existing data)
* written achievable learning objectives for the lesson?
* presented these objectives in a way that is easy for students to understand?
* provided students with models and scaffolds that allow them to see what success in this lesson looks like?
* created opportunities within every lesson to collect formative assessment?
* provided timely feedback to progress my students’ understanding and skill development?
* progressed students who have mastered the skill onto the next step of learning?

This rubric outlines a set of capabilities to do with the evidence-based practice of formative assessment. It can help teachers and their teams implement formative assessment by demonstrating a shared understanding of what it looks like in practice.

This rubric outlines a set of capabilities to do with the evidence-based practice of formative assessment. It can help teachers and their teams implement formative assessment by demonstrating a shared understanding of what it looks like in practice.

This handbook contains a collection of AERO's foundational classroom management practices. The handbook includes:

*the Classroom Management Resources: User Guide, which explains how to work through these resources
*three types of foundational resources: explainers, practice guides and skill resources.

This practice guide will help you to refine methods for gaining all students’ attention to create a learning environment that supports student engagement and minimises disruptive behaviours.

Efficiently gaining all students’ attention supports student safety, maximises instructional time and reduces the likelihood of students missing critical information. Teachers use scanning, non-verbal gestures, and audible or visual prompts to gain student attention, to ensure students are focused and ready to receive instructions.

AERO’s Interactive Evidence Decision-Making Tool is designed to help teachers, educators and leaders use evidence to make decisions about a new or existing practice or program based on AERO’s Standards of Evidence.

This video introduces AERO's Early Childhood Learning Trajectories, freely available evidence-based resources for use alongside the EYLF 2.0 assessment and planning cycle. Early childhood education and care service teams can use these resources to support children’s learning, development and wellbeing.

This guide is for secondary school leaders and teachers looking to better support Years 7 to 9 students struggling with foundational literacy and numeracy skills. It is primarily aimed at those able to make whole-school decisions. It makes recommendations based on the best available evidence.