Children learn more through ‘guided play’ than from teacher-led instruction, according to a new study by experts at Cambridge University. A play-focused approach to learning, where children are ...

What he learned as a teaching graduate on arrival at Ali Curung, 1100km down the Stuart Highway from Darwin, could not have been more different. Mr Kiel is now the principal at Ali Curung’s Alekarenge ...

The OECD has found that science teaching in schools is more effective if teachers use direct instruction to explain concepts rather than let students work it out for themselves in the increasingly ...

Mr Pearson said it was “bittersweet‘’ to see Catholic schools improve reading and mathematics results through the direct instruction method – also known as explicit teaching – after he lobbied for two ...

Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow John McWhorter offers a scathing critique in this New Republic article of New York City’s approach to bridging the reading gap between black and white children. The ...

Several studies found that direct instruction and task structuring can effectively promote children's ability to design unconfounded experiments. The present study examined whether the impact of these ...