The challenge for teachers and schools is to develop a shared understanding of what excellent
practice looks like. While it will not look exactly the same in every classroom, there are some instructional practices that evidence suggests work well in most.

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The High Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS) are 10 instructional practices that reliably increase student learning wherever they are applied. They emerge from the findings of tens of thousands of studies of what has worked in classrooms across Australia and the world. International experts such as John Hattie and Robert Marzano have synthesised these studies and ranked hundreds of teaching strategies by the contribution they make to student learning.

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Some teachers will ask, “But will they work in my classroom, with my students?” Only the professional judgement of teachers, both individual and collective, can answer that question. For any concept or skill that students need to learn, using a HITS to teach it increases the chances that students will learn it, compared to using other strategies. But they are reliable, not infallible. Knowing their students and how they learn, teachers are well-placed to judge whether a HITS or another strategy is the best choice to teach that concept or skill.

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Click on the individual HITS icon to view more detailed information.