What Works Best: NSW ed dept’s guide to 8 effective practices
We are sharing an excerpt from an Education Review article – released yesterday – as we know that Literacy for Boys supports various factors that the NSW Education Department says cultivates the best success in school for students. We find that the loop back to explicit teaching and feedback has benefits due to the following ~
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Boys are more engaged when they know the point of a task and can see real-world relevance.
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It also allows them to replicate success because they understand the “formula” behind strong literacy skills.
Enjoy the article ~
The NSW Education Department on Wednesday released the eight factors that it said cultivate the best success in school for students.
The third iteration of What Works Best resources, produced by the Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation, analysed the growing bank of education research and detailed what it deemed the eight most effective practices to improve student learning outcomes. They are:
- high expectations
- collaboration
- explicit teaching
- effective feedback
- using data to inform practice
- assessment
- classroom management
- wellbeing
The first theme, high expectations, is backed by evidence that says teachers’ expectations can affect how their students see themselves, what students believe they can achieve and what students actually achieve at school.
“Teacher expectations are generally found to have moderate to high effect sizes on measures of student learning and engagement, indicating an above-average effect relative to the many other factors and practices that influence student outcomes,” it said.
It states explicit teaching is the “thread that runs through every theme.”
“Feedback is integral to explicit teaching both for learning and behaviour. It is strongly connected to effective classroom management. Evidence-based assessments and analysis of data guide teachers’ collaborative decisions about planning and programming for explicit and systematic teaching.”
The centre also released guides on how teachers can practically use explicit teaching in the classroom, to be followed by guides for each of the other themes.
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