00:02The students at Ardeer Primary School have turned the hamster wheel of annual NAPLAN
00:07testing into child's play.
00:08See how good that was guys?
00:10I'm very proud of the school doing very good and learning lots of stuff.
00:16The recent NAPLAN results are really something we're really, really proud of.
00:20They're the best in the history of the school.
00:21When I grow up I want to be a surgeon.
00:23Shiny, magical, golden key.
00:27Ardeer Primary School says the key to its success was changing its teaching practice.
00:32Five years ago it embraced explicit instruction, a classroom practice designed around the latest
00:37science on how much information kids' brains can absorb.
00:41R, E.
00:43We try to only teach what's necessary, we don't want to overload the students.
00:49So each lesson is a small chunk of what they need to know.
00:52The principal says every step of learning to read is broken down, unlike previous, now
00:58discredited approaches that gave students more autonomy.
01:02It works because there's no ambiguity as to what the students should be aiming to achieve
01:07throughout the course of that lesson.
01:09Most Australian school systems have mandated explicit instruction and the federal government
01:13has made it a requirement of signing up to a new school funding deal.
01:17Experts believe it'll lift NAPLAN scores within five years.
01:20All right, hands on top.
01:22Ardeer Primary School says it's a journey worth taking.
01:25You gotta go ahead and get to the end of the new school system.
01:26We'll be using it for the end of the year, but let's get to the end of the year.
01:27Well, we'll do this.
01:28After you have engaged listening to the new school system, Teal S.
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