Teaching younger children through 'guided' play supports key aspects of their learning and development at least as well - and sometimes better - than the traditional direct instruction they usually ...

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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 ...

Schools should provide a window through which all students can see the future they want for themselves. Students arrive in the classroom with a diverse range of needs, and helping them succeed isn’t ...

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 ...

Thanks go to Sara L. Ford, the teacher quoted in the final paragraphs of your front-page article on science instruction (“NCLB Could Alter Science Teaching,” Nov. 10, 2004), for articulating a ...

An experimental efficacy study of science achievement and attitude development amongst eighth grade urban students using an inquiry, integrated science-mathematics-engineering model of instruction ...

David Scott has received funding from the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. University of Calgary provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University 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 ...

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 ...