The Research ED Guide to Explicit and Direct Instruction Edited by Adam Boxer – A Review

Direct Instruction has been something I’ve been intrigued by but not had a chance to really delve into both as a teacher and a leader. I first heard about it when I read Barak Rosenshine’s principles of instruction. To be honest, at first it felt like it might just be a hyper-traditional approach to teaching…

6 Features of Excellent Explanations

My last post attempted to explain why excellent explanations are so important in teaching. In this post I will try to draw together the many brilliant things that have been said by others on the topic of explanations to try and see if there are features of this core teaching skill that cut across phases…

Excellent Explanations (Part 1)

Excellent Explanations Part In this first of a series of blog posts, I want to argue for the power of accurate, clear and efficient teacher explanations in the learning process and why they are so important. Teaching is Explaining: A lesson learnt Part way through my first year of teaching I delivered a maths lesson…