The Power of Explicit Teaching and Direct Instruction

Greg Ashman - Teacher and education blogger, Australia
The Power of Explicit Teaching and Direct Instruction
November 2020 | 152 pages | Sage UK
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Direct instruction and explicit teaching can offer you a shorter, straighter route to developing effective learning in your classroom.

In this smart and accessible book, Greg Ashman explores how you can harness the potential of these often misunderstood and misapplied teaching methods to achieve positive learning outcomes for the students you teach.

It investigates key foundational principles, combined with thoughtful commentary on what these mean in classroom practice and an examination of relevant research and theories from cognitive psychology that substantiate these approaches to teaching and learning.

Contents

Chapter 1: On the shoulders of giants

Chapter 1: On the shoulders of giants

Chapter 2: Direct and explicit

Chapter 2: Direct and explicit

Chapter 3: Bottom up or top down

Chapter 3: Bottom up or top down

Chapter 4: What kind of monster treats all children the same

Chapter 4: What kind of monster treats all children the same

Chapter 5: Thinking outside the box

Chapter 5: Thinking outside the box

Chapter 6: Halfway up a ladder

Chapter 6: Halfway up a ladder

Chapter 7: The giant shrugs

Chapter 7: The giant shrugs

Description

Direct instruction and explicit teaching can offer you a shorter, straighter route to developing effective learning in your classroom.

In this smart and accessible book, Greg Ashman explores how you can harness the potential of these often misunderstood and misapplied teaching methods to achieve positive learning outcomes for the students you teach.

It investigates key foundational principles, combined with thoughtful commentary on what these mean in classroom practice and an examination of relevant research and theories from cognitive psychology that substantiate these approaches to teaching and learning.

Contents

Chapter 1: On the shoulders of giants

Chapter 1: On the shoulders of giants

Chapter 2: Direct and explicit

Chapter 2: Direct and explicit

Chapter 3: Bottom up or top down

Chapter 3: Bottom up or top down

Chapter 4: What kind of monster treats all children the same

Chapter 4: What kind of monster treats all children the same

Chapter 5: Thinking outside the box

Chapter 5: Thinking outside the box

Chapter 6: Halfway up a ladder

Chapter 6: Halfway up a ladder

Chapter 7: The giant shrugs

Chapter 7: The giant shrugs

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The Power of Explicit Teaching and Direct Instruction


November 2020 | 152 pages | Sage UK

Format Published Date ISBN Price
Paperback 31/03/2026 9781529731606 $60.00
Hardcover 31/03/2026 9781529731613 $119.00
180 Day Ebook 28/03/2023 9781529756180 $35.00
Lifetime 28/03/2023 9781529756180 $51.00

Direct instruction and explicit teaching can offer you a shorter, straighter route to developing effective learning in your classroom.

In this smart and accessible book, Greg Ashman explores how you can harness the potential of these often misunderstood and misapplied teaching methods to achieve positive learning outcomes for the students you teach.

It investigates key foundational principles, combined with thoughtful commentary on what these mean in classroom practice and an examination of relevant research and theories from cognitive psychology that substantiate these approaches to teaching and learning.


Table Of Contents:

  • Chapter 1: On the shoulders of giants
  • Chapter 2: Direct and explicit
  • Chapter 3: Bottom up or top down
  • Chapter 4: What kind of monster treats all children the same
  • Chapter 5: Thinking outside the box
  • Chapter 6: Halfway up a ladder
  • Chapter 7: The giant shrugs

Recent Product Reviews:

This book includes many positive characteristics but some key claims rest on weak scholarship and are unfounded. Primarily this relates to the promotion of direct instruction (explicit instruction) as if the evidence base was robust and conclusive, which it is not. Also, the book is flawed because it promotes direct instruction as if that is all a teacher needs in their repertoire of approaches.
Dr Pete Boyd, Faculty of Education (Carlisle), University of Cumbria

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