You know that moment when you realize your kid has been “getting support” for months (or years), and still can’t decode a ...

Critical thinking is a unifying goal of modern education. While past research has mostly examined the efficacy of a single instructional approach to teaching critical thinking, recent literature has ...

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 ...

Providing group instruction with high levels of opportunities to respond, including unison responding, is critical to maximize the educational instruction of individuals with autism spectrum disorders ...

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Those “aha” moments were ...

Nina Radcliffe’s teaching practice was changing. The “Getting to Know and Love Your Brain” poster on her wall, which read “breathe deep into your belly to stay calm and help your PFC (prefrontal ...

Today’s guest blog is written by Wendy James, Coordinator of Collegiate Renewal and Curriculum for Saskatoon Public Schools (Saskatoon, Canada). In high schools, where I work, teacher talk still ...

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 ...

THE State Government has listened to a determined Aurukun Council, announcing a review of the Direct Instruction teaching method used at the town’s school. In a move that has already prompted ...