Edutopia

Using Direct Instruction to Promote Inquiry

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

Three Reasons Teachers Shouldn’t DIY Their Lessons (and Shouldn’t Be Asked To)

Oregon professor Siegfried Engelmann wasn’t your typical education guru. He didn’t peddle feel-good platitudes or promote classroom fads—he treated teaching like a hard science, and he built Direct ...
Education Week

Studies Cite Learning Gains In Direct Instruction Schools

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 ...
Times Colonist

Geoff Johnson: No single right answer in direct instruction versus inquiry-based learning debate

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 ...
Heartland

What Is Direct Instruction?

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 ...