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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. KIM LANDERS: Indigenous leader Noel Pearson is defending his controversial 'direct instruction' ...

From the final report: "Students expressed strong interest in and support for the interviews conducted with guest experts. After class, there was often a group of students crowding around the guest ...