When I was training to be a teacher, my professors loved to stand at a lectern and lecture—at length—on how teaching was about so much more than lecturing. “He who does the talking does the learning,” ...

The Montessori and Direct Instruction teaching methods can seem worlds apart. But in Texas' Aldine district, parents can pick between them—at the same schools. Candee Wilson commands two universes in ...

Schools using Direct Instruction, a teaching method sometimes criticized for its tightly scripted teaching lessons, are generally seeing gains in student learning, according to a new package of ...

Educational leaders often emphasize that effective teaching requires more than subject-matter expertise. It also depends on ...

When I was teaching middle school science and later working as an administrator, I bought into the belief that a teacher should be a “guide on the side,” not a “sage on the stage.” Like many educators ...