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What's the best (and easiest) way to teach?

Sep 25, 2018 | Category: Featured

I thought I'd said all I ever wanted to say about group work until, responding to a tweet from an education professor exhorting all teachers to add group work to their teaching repertoires, I unwisely...

#group work #direct instruction #Robert Slavin #PISA #collaborative learning #McKinsey #Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction #whole class instruction

Hirsch vs Engelmann: "No scientific basis for Direct Instruction"?

Dec 02, 2016 | Category: research

No one seems clear who first said it, but it's become an abiding truth of journalism that, "If a dog bites a man, that is not news. But if a man bites a dog that is news." To publish an article in whi...

#direct instruction #ED Hirsch #Siegfreid Engelmann

Scripts: whose lesson is it anyway?

Jan 31, 2016 | Category: learning

When I was 16, Whose Line Is It Anyway? first aired on UK television. The show, hosted by Clive Anderson, asked four comedians to ad lib responses to various prompts and scenarios, much of it shouted...

#direct instruction #Project Follow Through #Siegfried Engelmann #Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Is there a right way to teach?

Nov 24, 2012 | Category: learning

It’s become a trite and hackneyed truism that if they’re not learning you’re just talking. We’re all clear that teaching only happens when the little tinkers manage to make some sort of progress – pre...

#Ofsted #Hattie #direct instruction #Wilshaw

Is SOLO a waste of time?

Jun 04, 2012 | Category: learning

Stop blaming your lack of experimentation, risk and innovation on your lack of time.Hywel Roberts - Oops! Helping Children Learn Accidentally It was pointed out to me recently that I can afford to exp...

#SOLO taxonomy #John Hattie #Phil Beadle #direct instruction #Hywel Roberts #Jigsawing #time

Is it better to be told, or to discover a fact?

Jan 22, 2012 | Category: learning

I've read a lot of blogosphere twaddle about why students don't learn effectively in groups and the only effective method for teaching is direct instruction. My view is there needs to balance in all t...

#group work #Hattie #direct instruction #spelling

Should we be teaching knowledge or skills?

Nov 02, 2011 | Category: learning

It is a truth universally acknowledged that our education system isn’t quite up to snuff. And at that point virtually all agreement ceases. There are those on which we might loosely term the ‘right’ o...

#Ian Gilbert #SOLO taxonomy #Hattie #Tait Coles #constructivism #Daniel Willingham #direct instruction