A trial of explicit direct instruction drove our school's remarkable turnaround

By Dr Terry Harding & Tim Shields

By By Dr Terry Harding & Tim Shields
Community contribution / June 21, 2021

The downward trend in Australian school student scores in tests such as NAPLAN, PISA and TIMSS has understandably caused concern among Australian educators, policymakers and the media.

There is now a comprehensive, decades-long corpus of evidence confirming Direct Instruction's effectiveness.

The push to remedy this trend is driving interest in pedagogies differing from the currently favoured, inquiry-based, child-centred educational practices ...

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