The Power of Explicit Teaching and Direct Instruction by Greg Ashman

Greg Ashman often pops up on my Twitter timeline and I enjoyed his last book- The Truth About Teaching. He has an aptitude for pulling together and eloquently outlining the current state of thinking about teaching (or certainly the dominant perspective from what I have read). This book was a pretty convincing argument for explicitContinue reading “The Power of Explicit Teaching and Direct Instruction by Greg Ashman”

The ResearchEd Guide to Explicit and Direct Instruction edited by Adam Boxer

This was another short book in the exciting new ResearchEd series. It wasn’t a quick, easy to access page-turner like the recent myth busting edition. Instead it was a slow review of DI and some of it was somewhat impenetrable to me. There were a couple of chapters that seemed to be about logic andContinue reading “The ResearchEd Guide to Explicit and Direct Instruction edited by Adam Boxer”