The Conversation

Direct Instruction and the teaching of reading

We keep hearing about “Direct Instruction” but what does it actually mean? Flickr/Judy Baxter, CC BY-SA Direct Instruction is a teaching method developed in the United States in the 1960s, focused ...
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 ...
EdSource

The balance between direct instruction and project-based science

EdSource · What a California State University’s new polytechnic status means for its future What a California State University’s new polytechnic status means for its future June 11, 2026 - As a ...
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 ...