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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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 ...

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 ...

This post is by Jeff Feitelberg, 4th Grade Teacher, High Tech Elementary Explorer. When I was at school, math was about speed and getting the right answer. It was something you did alone and you were ...

A CONTROVERSIAL teaching approach used in a $7 million trial has been slammed by a leading educator. Former Queenslander of the Year and prominent Indigenous educator Chris Sarra says the direct ...