Learning & Teaching Framework 2025
Aligns with How Students Learn:
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a teaching and learning plan. wledge, chunking content, sequencing instruction, and essments.
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g etention, consolidation, and application
Revisiting, reviewing, varying practice, and extending challenges.
Instructional Model
The Instructional Model is based on the MACS Vision for Instruction Explicit Instruction Sequence.
The Explicit Instruction Sequence has a solid evidence base to support its effectiveness. The Explicit Instruction Sequence is most effective where the objective is to master a body of knowledge or key skill involving clearly laid out steps which the students are expected to apply later.
As a result, some of the strategies suggested may not be effective in certain situations. Therefore, as with any educational strategy, it is down to the professional judgement of the teacher to decide how and when to apply them within the classroom.
Lesson Phases
HELP STUDENTS BE READY TO LEARN
Plan lessons (Curriculum Maps, Lesson Plans)
Meet and Greet
Learning Intentions and Success Criteria
Engage learners
Context (Big Picture)
Consolidate previous learning
Assess what is already known
Stimulate learner thinking
PRESENT MATERIAL IN SMALL STEPS
Identify what is essential to learn.
Chunk the content
Limit teacher talk to avoid cognitive overload.
Clear and detailed instructions
Provide exemplars Explain/ Demonstrate/ Model/ Watch/ Read
REFER TO WALK THRUS:
Behaviour & Relationships -
Getting Lessons Started
Curriculum Planning – All Practice and Retrieval - All
Toolbox ideas:
Do now activities, See Think Wonder, Brainstorm, Matching activity, Kahoot, Set individual learning goals, Spaced retrieval practice, Jamboard, puzzle
REFER TO WALK THRUS:
Explaining and Modelling – Worked Examples & Backward Fading
Behaviour & Relationships – Gather Around
Explaining and Modelling – Deliberate Vocabulary Development
Explaining and Modelling – Scaffolding
Explaining and Modelling – Abstract Models with Cognitive Examples
Toolbox ideas: Knowledge organisers, vocabulary lists, questioning, think alouds.
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Independent Practice
GUIDE STUDENT PRACTICE
A high level of active
practice for all students
Ask lots of questions
Deconstruct
Collaborative activities
Exemplars
INDEPENDENT STUDENT PRACTICE
Students demonstrate understanding Monitor practice
Aim for a high success rate
80% mastery
Assess ‘as’ learning
Scaffold/ differentiate where necessary
REVIEW
End lesson by asking students to articulate what they have learned
A daily, weekly or monthly review
Are the students ready to move between stages?
Ask lots of questions
Seek continual feedback from learners to confirm understanding, confidence, level of mastery
Circulate the class
Adjust the pacing of the lesson based on student readiness
REFER TO WALK THRUS:
Behaviour & Relationships -
Getting Lessons Started
Questioning & Feedback – Cold Calling
Questioning & Feedback –
Think, Pair, Share
Questioning & Feedback –
Show Me Boards
Questioning & Feedback –
Probing Questions
Questioning & Feedback –
Check for Understanding
Questioning & Feedback –Say It Again Better
Questioning & Feedback –
Process Questions
Practice & Retrieval – Guided Practice
Practice & Retrieval –
Independent Practice
Toolbox ideas: Jigsaw, Turn and talk, Reciprocal teaching, Thinking hats.
REFER TO WALK THRUS:
Ending Lessons: the Last 10 Minutes
Toolbox ideas: Traffic light, tweet it, kahoot, peer/ self-assessment, exit ticket, “I can” goal sheet, success criteria matrix, what stuck with me today?
REFER TO WALK THRUS:
Behaviour & Relationships - Transitions
Between Activities
Practice and Retrieval – Practice
Explaining
Practice and Retrieval – Peer-Supported Retrieval
Practice and Retrieval – Weekly & Monthly Review
Toolbox ideas: Hinge questions, Think, pair, share, Fist to 5, Stand up sit down, Microsoft Form
References
Australian Education Research Organisation (2024). Teaching for How Students Learn. A Model of Learning and Teaching.
https://www.edresearch.edu.au/guides-resources/practiceresources/teaching-how-students-learn-model-learning-and-teaching Or visit qrco.de/practiceresources
Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (2024). WalkThrus Resource Hub. https://sites.google.com/view/macswalkthrus/home Or visit qrco.de/resourcehub
Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (2024). Vision for Instruction. https://www.macs.vic.edu.au/MelbourneArchdioceseCatholicSchools/me dia/Documentation/Documents/Vision-For-Instruction-PositionStatement.pdf Or visit qrco.de/macsvfi Padua College (2019). Instructional Model
My ideas/notes
