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

A former principal of Aurukun's school in far north Queensland has defended Noel Pearson's controversial teaching model, saying there has been a dramatic improvement since its introduction. Direct ...

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 ...

Eshelman Avenue Elementary School in Lomita would appear to have the cards stacked against it: Most pupils come from low-income households, and many speak little or no English at home. So how did the ...

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 ...

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 ...