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Want to make the most of the learning in your classroom? Explicit teaching is an evidence-based approach to effectively teach new curriculum content. It is a student-focused practice that fosters understanding. It requires teachers to show students what to do and how to do it. In this course, you will explore evidence-based strategies you can use to plan, implement and assess explicit teaching sessions in a way that supports the needs of diverse cohorts of students. These includeÌýstrategies such as modelling, breaking down complex tasks through chunking and how to check for understanding. You’ll develop lesson plans grounded in explicit teaching methodologies, collaborate with other educators and leave prepared to teach with newfound precision, clarity and impact.

Our Explicit Teaching course is aligned to the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Professional Standards for Teachers at the highly accomplished level, with a focus on evidence-based strategies tailored for today's dynamic classrooms. You will explore the role of explicit teaching within the broader context of lesson and unit planning. Feedback strategies will be investigated, as will practices supporting explicit teaching in diverse classrooms. You’ll also:

• explore and apply strategies to plan, implement and assess explicit teaching sessions to improve student outcomes
• critically reflect on the application of different strategies in your context Ìý
• examine and refine your practice throughÌýan optionalÌýAction Research project
• connect with an active online community for discussion and reflection
• engage with, share and contribute to a repository of relevant teaching resourcesÌý
• work toward a potential credit pathway for post-graduate study at the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide.

The micro-credentials are designed for ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn-based school teachers (early years, primary and secondary), school leaders, other education professionals within the school setting and pre-service teachers.

This program will expand your repertoire of instructional strategies, giving you the confidence to select a targeted and student-centred approach to teaching. You will feel prepared and assured to support learning with access to a well-structured repository of resources and a framework to prepare, deliver, assess and provide feedback on learning in an explicit way. Completing this micro-credential can count towards the annual 20-hour requirement for maintaining your teacher registration.Ìý

We know that learning happens most efficiently when teaching is clear, systematic and guided with intent. As you apply explicit teaching practices, your students will experience a more transparent, structured learning environment, fostering confidence in their own learning progress and achievements. Explicit teaching can also reduce students’ cognitive load and support them to link prior learning to new concepts. This results in better comprehension and increased student engagement.

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With staff proficient in explicit teaching, your educational institution will be better positioned to deliver high-quality instruction. This proficiency helps reassure stakeholders—such as parents, school boards, funding bodies, and alumni—of the school's dedication to impactful and effective teaching. School leaders can use the micro-credential to support implementation of a whole-school approach to explicit teaching by encouraging their teachers to undertake the micro-credential together. The readings, tasks and strategies can form the basis for ongoing critical conversations of professional learning teams to share practice.

In 2022, the Quality Initial Teacher Education Review suggested that short courses could help teachers to upskill, particularly in areas where they feel underprepared, such as managing classrooms, using explicit teaching strategies, and teaching phonics. In response, the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Government has selected the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide to develop evidence-based micro-credentials so that teachers in all stages of their careers can upskill in these areas of need with minimum disruption to their work capacity.