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 ...

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 ...

Last week I said that Baltimore's City Springs Elementary School has successfully used Direct Instruction, a program Montgomery County is putting into its high-poverty elementary schools. I based my ...

“A teacher should be a guide on the side rather than a sage on the stage.” This common saying is one of the most useless pieces of advice that teachers receive from their education professors. Many ...

You’d think that since Socrates, Plato and Aristotle sat together under the legendary plane tree in Athens around 430 BC, the debate about whether some form of ...

Despite the consensus about the importance of self-regulated learning for academic as well as for lifelong learning, it is still poorly understood as to how teachers can most effectively support their ...