Teachers can support inquiry-based learning by using direct instruction to provide students with the tools they need to ...

Since the late 1960s and early 70s, beginning teachers have been taught that more formal, structured and teacher-directed models of classroom interaction are outdated and ineffective. In the jargon ...

Mr Pearson said it was “bittersweet‘’ to see Catholic schools improve reading and mathematics results through the direct instruction method – also known as explicit teaching – after he lobbied for two ...

A recent guest post here by John Thompson, Neither Teacher-less nor Teacher-proof: Constructivism Meets Guided Instruction, led to a lively discussion in the comments. I asked one reader to expand on ...

Dr Kevin Donnelly was recently commissioned by the Commonwealth Government to review the Australian national curriculum. Seventy teachers from the UK were sent to Shanghai to study classroom methods ...