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Date Posted: 21:45:24 04/18/07 Wed
Author: April Dandridge (Happy)
Subject: Direct Instruction
After reading the approaches to educating students, I understand why it is very important that a teacher be able to give instructional objectives in a way that the students can learn. However, attempting to decide the best instructional strategy can be difficult. Is Direct Instruction the best choice for teaching adolescents? It depends on the person you are asking. Many educators feel that direct instruction prepares students for lecture-oriented college courses. However, students criticize constantly about how tedious and uninteresting their classes are. When I was in high school, I would have stayed home and slept on a bed of nails; rather than, to sit through a fifty minutes lecture about History. So how is it that a known practice, such as Direct Instruction, remain so permanent in our classroom, even though, we are losing their attention?
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Re: Direct Instruction -- Ethel McKinney, 22:00:34 04/18/07 Wed
>I have been charged with the responsibility of coming up with strategies so all students are successful. Direct instruction cannot be utilized everyday, for every class. The teaching strategies must be mixed. Thursdays are reading days, so we read and do activities from the math library in my classroom. Fridays are activity day, when the lesson is taught with a hands-on project or activities, sometimes even a game. Monday's are the only direct instruction days. Adolescents need constant feedback and they enjoy being active participants in what they are learning and how that learning is to take place.
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Re: Direct Instruction -- Emily Clark, 03:22:15 04/19/07 Thu
I think that a more exploratory, student-centered instructional approach is good for a variety of reasons. First, many students today cannot keep their attention focused on a lecture for an hour like they may have been able to in past generations. Students today are used to TV, internet, and other things that require a short attention span before cutting to a commerical break. That said, I don't think that there are too many major problems with direct instruction. I think that direct instruction, when properly practiced probably helps students prepare for college, as you mentioned april, and I also think it may help teach students respect and get them ready for the real world. In real life, they will have to sit through boring meetings, phone calls, church services, classes if they go to college, waiting rooms, etc. Patience and respect are things that many kids today also need to be taught. Both approaches have positive and negative points. For this reason, I don't think that direct instruction should be done away with, but teachers should probably learn to use aspects of both strategies when possible.
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