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' ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...