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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Caitlin Cassidy

NSW teachers to embrace ‘step by step’ explicit instruction method amid major syllabus shake-up

Deputy principle of Wairoa School assists students in classroom
Penelope Earp, deputy principal of Wairoa School, assists Saxon (left), Philip (centre) and Jakob with the explicit teaching method in Bondi, NSW. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

The New South Wales curriculum has had its biggest shakeup in five decades with better connections between subjects, more detailed concepts and skills, and a move away from the student-led approach to learning towards “explicit instruction”.

On Wednesday, new K-6 syllabuses for health, creative arts, human society and its environment, and science were released to teachers, with updated maths and English syllabuses in classrooms from this year.

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