Explicit teaching | August 13, 2024 | Illawarra Mercury - video Dailymotion

WATCH: Figtree Public School principal Melissa Harding explains the explicit teaching approach.

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00:00Exclusive teaching is certainly not something that's new.

00:03It's something that has been occurring in schools, I guess, for as long as

00:06schools have been open and the education systems have been

00:10occurring, but exclusive teaching is certainly something

00:13that is really important. Exclusive teaching

00:17utilises a range of different strategies to ensure

00:21that we're scaffolding, we're modelling, we're posing effective questions

00:25and that we're providing students with feedback.

00:29Whereas before, I think there was a big push for

00:32inquiry-based learning and I don't know if there was always

00:36enough of the explicit teaching of fundamental skills first

00:40prior to the explicit teaching. It's definitely not throwing inquiry-based

00:44learning out the window, but it's ensuring that we have adequate

00:48explicit teaching that occurs so that students are

00:51being able to be set up for success and that they have the fundamental skills

00:56modelled for them throughout the learning process.

00:59Students know when they're successful and what success looks like

01:03through that lesson, but they're also active learners

01:07throughout the process, so there's no hiding in a classroom that's being

01:11taught explicitly, there's no a child sitting there and not

01:14engaging in their learning. They're engaging via whiteboards,

01:18they're engaging by turning to the person next to them and talking,

01:22sharing ideas with the teacher and that throughout that lesson the teacher's

01:27really been very active in the process of

01:30asking questions, posing questions, providing feedback,

01:34giving examples, then letting the students have a turn

01:38coming back. Okay, what did we do right? Referring to the success criteria,

01:42learning intentions and that there really is that

01:46gradual release of responsibility that the teacher's modelling

01:49and then as the students are acquiring the skills needed

01:53that they're doing more of the independent work themselves.