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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In successful high-poverty and high-minority schools in California, the predominant teaching method is direct instruction, where student learning is directed by and centered on the teacher. But a ...

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 ...

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 ...