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 ...

“If you look at what most good teachers do, they are using direct instruction. But if you say to them that they are using direct instruction, they look at you as if, and this is a Dutch phrase, water ...

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 ...

Sign up for EdSource’s free daily newsletter to stay ahead of what’s changing in California education. When I was teaching middle school science and later working ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Much is currently being made of the benefits of direct instruction. Analyses, meta-analyses and meta-meta-analyses are being quoted on Twitter and other platforms proclaiming its efficacy. Ofsted’s ...