SIXTEEN ELEMENTS OF EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION
The following elements essential to successful Learning and classroom management are part of the practice of every teacher and teacher aide at Taroom P-10 State School. These elements are based on the research of Anita Archer and Charles Hughes.
Content
1. Focus instruction on critical content
2. Sequence skills
logically
3. Breakdown complex skills and strategies into smaller instructional
units
Design of Instruction
4. Design organised and focused lessons
5. Begin lessons with a clear statement of the
lesson goals and your expectations
6. Review prior skills and knowledge before
beginning instruction
7. Provide step-by-step demonstrations
8. Use clear and concise language
9. Provide an adequate range of examples and
non-examples
10. Provide guided and supported practice
Deliver of Instruction
11. Require frequent responses
12. Monitor student performance closely
13. Provide immediate affirmative and
corrective feedback
14. Deliver lesson at a brisk pace
15. Help students organise knowledge
Judicious Practice
16. Provide distributed and cumulative practice
"How well you teach = How well they learn"