Instead of starting with whole group instruction and then using small groups to intervene, teachers can use a targeted ...

Bill Louden was a member of the Rowe Review into the teaching of reading in Australia. Direct Instruction is a teaching method developed in the United States in the 1960s, focused particularly on the ...

Schools using Direct Instruction, a teaching method sometimes criticized for its tightly scripted teaching lessons, are generally seeing gains in student learning, according to a new package of ...

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 much clearer once you have a sense of what Direct Instruction ...

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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 ...

Teachers on Elcho Island in the Northern Territory are accusing the Government of strong-arming its school into adopting a US education model known as "direct instruction". The method, which already ...

What happens if you stop teaching young children through direct instruction and instead set up purposeful opportunities to play? They could learn just as much when it comes to literacy, numeracy and ...