Vol. 11, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: Direct Instruction: A General Case for Teaching the General Case (NOVEMBER 1988), pp. 318-327 (10 pages) This paper presents the results of two studies of the long-term ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A study about improving rural students’ reading skills published earlier this year has prompted a series of four responses both criticizing and supporting its findings. Three of the four responses ...

With only 36% of Lehighton’s third graders reading at or above benchmark last year, district leaders are rolling out a new professional development program they hope will transform classroom ...

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' ...