The Haileybury Explicit Instruction Programme is a professional development programme for teachers and schools. It is being made available online to teachers who wish to understand and implement the approach in their teaching and for their schools.

Based on international research into effective learning, it focuses on helping students achieve mastery of core skills and move learning from short to long term memory. 

Explicit Instruction uses a set of teaching techniques for modelling skills, guided practice and independent practice along with the Six Givens that set the context for effective explicit instruction. The approach is effective for classroom learning and teaching or online.

Each course has its own playbook, a practical teacher toolkit and a library of video materials of Explicit Instruction in action.

The Haileybury Explicit Instruction Programme builds on the work of John Fleming and the Haileybury Institute. This work was initially developed in the context of one of Victoria’s disadvantaged low-socioeconomic primary schools and aimed to lift the performance of students in literacy and numeracy.   

Since 2006, the Haileybury Institute has worked to implement, develop and refine explicit instruction, drawing on research including educational neuroscience and international evidence-based best practice. 

Haileybury’s teachers and teaching and learning leaders have helped successfully implement Explicit Instruction in over 100 schools. It has  increased teacher and student engagement and lifted student achievement. The results at Haileybury and other schools have run counter to the declining trend in Australian academic performance in literacy and numeracy as measured by for example PISA. 

The Haileybury Institute has worked with many schools to implement the Explicit Instruction model. For example, the Blue Haven Public School was supported in delivering explicit instruction and was recognised by an Australian Government School of the Year award in the 2019 Australian Education Awards.

The Haileybury Explicit Instruction Programme consists of 7 courses that can be studied as self-paced online learning. Each course includes its own playbook that accompanies a course toolkit and videos of Explicit Instruction in action.

Teachers may, if they wish, submit evidence and obtain microcredentials for each course to demonstrate their knowledge and evidence their competencies in explicit instruction.

Teachers can obtain individual course microcredentials and stack these into the Haileybury Explicit Instruction Programme Core Credential by providing a portfolio of video evidence based on their work in each course. These video portfolios should be of their classroom practice.

Teachers can also stack advanced courses into the Haileybury Explicit Instruction Programme Advanced Credential by providing two professional practice papers based on their work.