Effective Teaching Components

Effective Teaching Components

To maximise learning, effective teaching lessons are designed to produce optimal instructional growth in the shortest time.

A range of features have been built into an effective teaching instructional design approach. Each lesson has:

• information presented explicitly and unambiguously to mitigate students’ misunderstanding
• content presented through interlinked schemas that form a comprehensive learning framework across primary school years
• an objective and a learning goal to let students know what they are about to learn and what the outcome of the learning will be
• limited new information that builds on skills from the previous lesson and recurs throughout subsequent lessons
• skills that are initially acquired easily so that students experience success, but later become increasingly complex so that students are continually challenged
• skill development set out in sequenced learning progressions that build on students’ previously acquired learning – students master each set of skills before progressing to new tasks
• regular recalling of past information, which informs new learning
• regular checkpoints to confirm that students have mastered the content before they learn new information, which is determined by students demonstrating around 90 per cent accuracy
• adjustments and strategies for teachers to address gaps in learning before retesting students and moving on
• built-in pedagogical scaffolding for student engagement strategies to maintain high engagement.

On the next slide, you will read a scenario of what explicit teaching looks like in the classroom.