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 ...

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 ...

A study about improving rural students’ reading skills published earlier this year has prompted a series of four responses both criticizing and supporting its findings. Three of the four responses ...

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 ...

Children are attending at just below mainstream levels and many are learning faster than the state average. If these trends are sustained, then the serious dysfunction that has characterised remote ...

Martu leaders toured remote schools in the east Pilbara last month to assess the progress of its new prescriptive teaching model. The direct instruction model was rolled out to schools in Jigalong, ...

Lorraine Hammond is affiliated with Learning Difficulties Australia and is a Professional Development Consultant with the Kimberley Schools Project, a state government initiative in Western Australia.