Use the links below to access the Teaching and Learning Toolkit approaches mapped to the relevant elements of the NSW Department of Education School Excellence Framework’s ‘excellence in learning’ domain.
The ‘excellence in learning’ domain includes:
- Learning culture: high expectations, transitions and continuity of learning, attendance
- Wellbeing: caring for students, a planned approach to wellbeing, individual learning needs, behaviour
- Curriculum: curriculum provision, teaching and learning programs, differentiation
- Assessment: formative assessment, summative assessment, student engagement
- Reporting: whole school reporting, student reports, parent engagement
- Student performance measures: value-add, NAPLAN, student growth, internal and external measures against syllabus standards.
You may also want to review the Teaching & Learning Toolkit approaches as mapped to the other School Excellence Framework domains: excellence in teaching and excellence in leading.
The building of educational aspiration and ongoing performance improvement across a school community.
Feedback
Very high impact for very low cost based on extensive evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+6
Homework
High impact for very low cost based on very limited evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+5
Mentoring
Low impact for moderate cost based on moderate evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+2
Metacognition and self-regulation
Very high impact for very low cost based on extensive evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+7
Parental engagement
Moderate impact for very low cost based on extensive evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+4
Support for the cognitive, emotional, social, physical and spiritual wellbeing of all students.
Arts participation
Moderate impact for very low cost based on moderate evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+3
Behaviour interventions
Moderate impact for low cost based on limited evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+4
Mentoring
Low impact for moderate cost based on moderate evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+2
Parental engagement
Moderate impact for very low cost based on extensive evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+4
Social and emotional learning
Moderate impact for very low cost based on very limited evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+4
The integration of quality teaching, curriculum planning and assessment to meet the learning needs of all students.
Individualised instruction
Moderate impact for very low cost based on limited evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+4
Metacognition and self-regulation
Very high impact for very low cost based on extensive evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+7
One to one tuition
High impact for moderate cost based on moderate evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+5
Oral language interventions
Very high impact for very low cost based on extensive evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+6
Peer tutoring
High impact for very low cost based on extensive evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+5
Phonics
High impact for very low cost based on very extensive evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+5
Reading comprehension strategies
Very high impact for very low cost based on extensive evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+6
Small group tuition
Moderate impact for low cost based on moderate evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+4
Teaching Assistant Interventions
Moderate impact for moderate cost based on moderate evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+4
Within-class achievement grouping
Low impact for very low cost based on very limited evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+2
The use of assessments and reporting to monitor, plan and report on student learning across the curriculum.
Feedback
Very high impact for very low cost based on extensive evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+6
Providing clear, timely and accurate information that supports further progress and achievement for all student learning.
Feedback
Very high impact for very low cost based on extensive evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+6
Homework
High impact for very low cost based on very limited evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+5
Parental engagement
Moderate impact for very low cost based on extensive evidence
Cost
Evidence
Impact (months)
+4
Teaching and Learning Toolkit
An accessible summary of the international evidence on teaching 5 – 16 year-olds.
Aligned evidence
Toolkit approaches aligned with school improvement frameworks.
Using the Toolkits
Guide to using our Teaching and Learning Toolkit and Early Childhood Education Toolkit.