On September 12, AEI’s Robert Pondiscio hosted a panel to discuss direct and explicit instruction. Zach Groshell, a renowned instructional coach and expert in the field, opened the webinar with his ...

“When we know better, we do better.” There is something forgiving and medicinal about that teaching mantra. I am regularly realizing that I could have taught something more effectively or that I ...

“I can’t tell you the number of kids who have gone from class clown to school captain just because they learned to read,” he tells Inquirer. “We focus on direct instruction when it comes to teaching ...

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 ...

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 ...

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When it comes to learning to read, new research suggests that explicit instruction -- a phonics teaching method in which the relationship between sound and spelling is taught directly and ...