Explicit teaching | August 13, 2024 | Illawarra Mercury
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.