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 ...

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' ...

Teachers on Elcho Island in the Northern Territory are accusing the Government of strong-arming its school into adopting a US education model known as "direct instruction". The method, which already ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. PRINCIPAL John Fleming advocates a dramatic shift in the way primary school children are taught. And educators are listening because his ...

A CONTROVERSIAL teaching approach used in a $7 million trial has been slammed by a leading educator. Former Queenslander of the Year and prominent Indigenous educator Chris Sarra says the direct ...

A CONTROVERSIAL teaching approach used in a $7 million trial has been slammed by a leading educator. Former Queenslander of the Year and prominent Indigenous educator Chris Sarra says the direct ...