Direct Instruction and Multiple Intelligence
I found this so interesting, I thought that there was more of a promotion to teach different learning styles. I really like when it talked about using multiple ways of teaching to hold the students' attention. Obviously you learn better when you pay closer attention. If the lesson takes a turn or two the students are going to be paying attention to see what we do next. I didn't know that our brains retained information better with long term education. So block classes are no good. The fall backs I see of Direct Instruction is It categorized and groups children and their abilities. It uses more assessments and assessment based questions. Teachers lessons are also normally scripted or has a specific flow it needs to follow, so then the teacher will not be able to branch out to other related topics as well. Ive seen many positive and negative aspects and opinions on Direct Instruction. So I think it is important to have a good balance of direct instruction and also othe...