What is explicit teaching?
This free online professional learning module focuses on explicit teaching. Explicit teaching is an effective strategy used to enhance students' learning of mathematics. This approach includes various actions that can be performed by the teacher to design and present instruction to students in a meaningful way.
In this module you will:
- develop an understanding of how explicit teaching can be used to enhance your practice and be applied to teaching mathematics
- explore the seven key components which are considered essential in teaching and learning.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Foundation Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6
- Purpose
- Professional learning Teaching strategies
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2022 Commonwealth of Australia. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
- Other terms
- teaching strategies evidence-based primary maths
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