The e5 Instructional Model

The e5 model aims to provide a guide to what high quality practice looks like and
how to work with students every day in the classroom. It supports teachers to
increase their understanding and build their knowledge base in leading practice. The
e5 model stands for the five phases built around five active verbs: engage, explore,
explain, elaborate and evaluate and allows teachers to self-assess against the
learning and teaching continuum, and to identify their current proficiency level and
areas for improvement. The rationale behind the development of the e5 Instructional
Model is to show how teachers use what they know in the classroom and to clearly
articulate for themselves and others what high quality teaching and learning looks
like in the classroom, including the intended capabilities of students when they leave
the class. These understandings can then underpin the subsequent development
and professional learning required to improve proficiency in the five domains. The
symbols in the table below will be used throughout the unit guide to identify where
each is relevant in the curriculum of this unit.
The e5 Instructional Model:

Symbol:

Engage: The teacher fosters positive relations with and between

students and develops shared expectations for learning and interacting.
They stimulate interest and curiosity, promote questioning and connect
learning to real world experiences.
They present a purpose for learning.

Engage

Explore: The teacher presents challenging tasks to support students to

generate and investigate questions, gather relevant information and
develop ideas. They provide tools and procedures for students to
organise information and ideas.
Explain: The teacher provides opportunities for students to demonstrate
their current level of understanding through verbal and non-verbal
means. They explicitly teach relevant knowledge, concepts and skills.
This content is represented in multiple ways. The teacher provides
strategies to enable students to connect and organise new and existing
knowledge.
Elaborate: The teacher engages students in dialogue, continuously
extending and refining students understanding. They support students
to identify and define relationships between concepts and to generate
principles or rules. The teacher selects contexts from familiar to
unfamiliar, which progressively build the students ability to transfer and
generalise their learning.
Evaluate: The teacher supports students to continuously refine and
improve their work using assessment criteria in preparation for a
performance of understanding. They integrate evidence from each
phase, formally recording students progress against learning goals.
The teacher provides feedback and assists students to evaluate their
progress and achievements.

Explore

Explain

Elaborate

Evaluate

Blooms Taxonomy
Blooms Taxonomy of cognitive domains is one of the best ways to differentiate the
curriculum to meet the needs of all students. It contains six levels of thinking and can
provide a framework for planning units that incorporate lower level and higher order
thinking activities. Therefore, Blooms Taxonomy has been incorporated into this unit
for planning framework that can be used for student thinking at all levels. The
symbols in the table below will be used throughout the unit guide to identify where
each is relevant in the curriculum of this unit.
Blooms Taxonomy
Remembering: Aims for students
to be able to recognise, recall and
describe previously learned
information.
Understanding: Students ability
to understand and interpret
previously learned material,
including the ability to predict
outcomes and effects.
Applying: Encourage students to
make use of their learned
knowledge, this includes
implementing and applying laws,
methods and theories and applying
this to familiar situations.
Analysing: Students are
encouraged to deconstruct
information into parts and explore
understandings and relationships,
this allows students to compare,
interrogate and establish
conclusions.
Evaluating: Students are
required to justify their decisions,
conclusion and course of actions,
therefore are asked to critique
and check their work. They will
have the ability support outcomes
based on evidence and the ability
to judge and value for purpose.
Creating: Students are now able
to construct different learned
elements to form a coherent and
functional whole, they are able to
generate ideas, plan and
produce.

Key Words: defines,

describes, identifies, knows,
matches, names, outlines,
recalls, recognizes.
Key Words: comprehends
converts, defends,
distinguishes, estimates,
explains, extends,
generalizes.
Key Words: applies,
changes, computes,
constructs, demonstrates,
discovers, relates, shows,
solves, uses.

Symbol
Remembering

Understanding

Applying

Key Words: compares,

contrasts, deconstructs,
distinguishes, identifies,
illustrates, outlines, relates.

Analysing

Key Words: compares,

evaluates, explains,
describes.

Evaluating

Key Words: combines,

compiles, creates, devises.

Creating