Teaching methods are the broader techniques used to help students achieve learning outcomes, while activities are the different ways of implementing these methods. Teaching methods help students: ...

Effective mentorship is crucial for combating burnout and enhancing teaching efficacy, with strategies like precharting, time blocking, and the Eisenhower Decision Matrix (EDM).

How best should we educate our children? With direct instruction. For more than 50 years, the best way to educate children has been heatedly debated by those who favor teacher-directed instruction ...

A recent guest post here by John Thompson, Neither Teacher-less nor Teacher-proof: Constructivism Meets Guided Instruction, led to a lively discussion in the comments. I asked one reader to expand on ...

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 ...

In recent years, the once-esoteric term “evidence-based reading instruction” has spread beyond research institutions to become part of the vernacular of classroom teachers tasked with teaching young ...

Dr Kevin Donnelly was recently commissioned by the Commonwealth Government to review the Australian national curriculum. Seventy teachers from the UK were sent to Shanghai to study classroom methods ...

Mr Pearson said the Australian Education Union “could not be more against the interests of children’’. “They are oblivious, or completely blind, to the evidence about what’s effective in education, ...