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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Advantage Schools uses the Direct Instruction (DI) curriculum to teach all children reading, writing, and math. First developed more than 30 years ago, DI has been credited with a high degree of ...

The government made an election commitment for $22 million to support “proven explicit teaching methods” into schools and will today begin implementing the policy. The federal Education Department ...

Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they’re reading books to babies in the womb. They pressure teachers to make ...

Pop sticks and mini-whiteboards may seem unlikely agents of educational change, but for one Perth high school, they're proving to be invaluable tools in turning around student results. In a school ...