Practice guides | Australian Education Research Organisation

Practice guides compile the latest research on evidence-based teaching practices in a format that’s easy to understand.

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Writing paragraphs

This practice guide will help teachers and school leaders understand different paragraph types. It’s part of a suite of resources designed to support explicit writing instruction in the classroom. It can be used in conjunction with AERO’s guides on simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences and sentence combining.

Family engagement

This practice guide will help teachers engage with families to support learning.

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Developing a school implementation plan

This practice guide steps implementation teams through the process of planning to implement evidence-based teaching practices in their school.

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Identifying and addressing implementation enablers and barriers

This practice guide steps implementation teams through the process of systematically identifying and responding to enablers and barriers in their context.

Cultural safety

This practice guide will help teachers understand how to develop responsiveness by engaging in reflexive practice and building relationships of trust with students, their families and community.

Respectful interactions

This practice guide will help teachers understand how to demonstrate care and high expectations for students and build positive relationships with them, their families and communities.

Support tiered interventions

This practice guide will help teachers understand their role in supporting a multi-tiered system of supports.

Develop a teaching and learning plan

This practice guide will help teachers to develop teaching and learning plans that will maximise the opportunity for students to successfully acquire new knowledge and skills, and for teachers to be ready to respond to their changing learning needs.

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Emotional regulation: Supporting students’ diverse needs

This practice guide will help teachers support students in understanding, managing and safely expressing their emotions so students can successfully engage in learning and maintain positive connections at school. It’s part of a suite of resources developed in partnership with MultiLit and the Institute of Special Educators.

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Communication needs: Supporting students’ diverse needs

This practice guide will help teachers support students’ communication needs so students can successfully engage in learning and positively interact with adults and peers at school. It’s part of a suite of resources developed in partnership with MultiLit and the Institute of Special Educators.

Physical needs: Supporting students’ diverse needs

This practice guide will help teachers refine their approach to supporting students’ physical needs so they can engage in their learning and experience success at school. It’s part of a suite of resources developed in partnership with MultiLit and the Institute of Special Educators.