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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A former principal of Aurukun's school in far north Queensland has defended Noel Pearson's controversial teaching model, saying there has been a dramatic improvement since its introduction. Direct ...

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 ...

The Australian’s readers have appreciated his intelligent writing for years. Turning his attention to the malaise afflicting Australian schooling, which he is well qualified to do, Mr Pearson has ...

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 ...