We keep hearing about “Direct Instruction” but what does it actually mean? Flickr/Judy Baxter, CC BY-SA Direct Instruction is a teaching method developed in the United States in the 1960s, focused ...

On September 12, AEI’s Robert Pondiscio hosted a panel to discuss direct and explicit instruction. Zach Groshell, a renowned instructional coach and expert in the field, opened the webinar with his ...

A recent guest post here by John Thompson, Neither Teacher-less nor Teacher-proof: Constructivism Meets Guided Instruction, led to a lively discussion in the comments. I asked one reader to expand on ...

How best should we educate our children? With direct instruction. For more than 50 years, the best way to educate children has been heatedly debated by those who favor teacher-directed instruction ...

What he learned as a teaching graduate on arrival at Ali Curung, 1100km down the Stuart Highway from Darwin, could not have been more different. Mr Kiel is now the principal at Ali Curung’s Alekarenge ...

The OECD has found that science teaching in schools is more effective if teachers use direct instruction to explain concepts rather than let students work it out for themselves in the increasingly ...

Mr Pearson said it was “bittersweet‘’ to see Catholic schools improve reading and mathematics results through the direct instruction method – also known as explicit teaching – after he lobbied for two ...

DIRECT Instruction works. And I’d never send my own child to a school that uses it. That may seem like a paradox. But the picture becomes clearer once you have a sense of what Direct Instruction looks ...

When I was teaching middle school science and later working as an administrator, I bought into the belief that a teacher should be a “guide on the side,” not a “sage on the stage.” Like many educators ...

You’d think that since Socrates, Plato and Aristotle sat together under the legendary plane tree in Athens around 430 BC, the debate about whether some form of ...