Recently, Bryan Goodwyn wrote an article on zombie education ideas that need to go six feet under for good. And, he rightly included teaching to visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learning styles, or modalities, to improve student academic performance in that…
I get a bit hot under the collar–okay, a lot hot under the collar, when I read posts like this:
What Can We Learn from Direct Instruction and Siegfried Engelmann?
Don’t get me wrong. The blogger has definitely pulled together some key data on the benefits of direct instruction, where teachers demonstrate “how” and students then practice for mastery, for children in poverty. There are key reasons to use direct instruction.
But…not all students from poverty have the same learning needs. And this kind of instruction is what made Einstein and Edison drop out of school. And here’s my big point:
Sorry to shout. But either/or thinking won’t work on this issue. Here’s three big reasons why.