AERO Publication

The Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) has published an explainer titled ‘Developing maths proficiency.’ This explainer unpacks and describes the interrelated strands of maths proficiency, and how evidence based teaching practices can support their development.  This maths explainer complements AERO’s model of learning and teaching, which identifies the most effective and efficient teaching practices aligned with how students learn.

Engaged classrooms

To support school leaders to lead a whole-school approach to student behaviour and classroom management, here are some recently released professional learning resources (slide decks with preparation and facilitator notes).  These will support the development of shared staff understanding of the evidence-based approaches to classroom management and the schools’ specific approaches.  AERO are happy to provide briefing sessions for CaSPA, newsletter articles or further information for your members.

AERO is developing two more classroom management professional learning resources to be released in early 2025 to support school leaders to lead reflection and refinement activities with their staff, along with video examples of classroom management practices, guidance on supporting colleagues to refine their practice with accompanying observation tools, and guidance on supporting students’ diverse needs.  We are engaging with school leaders, teachers and experts to ensure these resources are most useful to support classroom management in schools. Our main advisory group includes Angela Falkenberg but please let me know if you would like to hear more on this project.