researchED es una organización orientada a los educadores, cuyo objetivo consiste en tender puentes entre la investigación y la práctica. En esta accesible y contundente serie, supervisada por el fundador de researchED, Tom Bennet, se abordan los temas más importantes para la educación, gracias a los aportes de una amplia gama de colaboradores experimentados que analizan las más recientes evidencias e investigaciones, así como la manera en que pueden aplicarse a diversos ambientes de enseñanza. En esta obra, Adam Boxer examina la instrucción directa, editando contribuciones de autores Summer Turner, Kris Boulton, Greg Ashman, Gethyn Jones, Tom Needham, Lia Martin, Amy Coombe, Naveen Rivzi, John Blake, Sarah Barker, Hannah Stoten y Sarah Cullen.
Listened to @mrbartonmaths ' interview of @Kris_Boulton and wanted to know more about this Engleman and his theories. I found the chapters by Rizvi, Cullen, and Stoten especially good. My big questions remain somewhat unanswered. Does this work with all children, not just low achieving ones? What would an entire DI Curriculum look like? I liked the math examples, and wish for more of this. How would DI look in a discipline like history? Why was so much of this book devoted to essays about that it worked, as opposed to how it worked? I do appreciate that @adamboxer1 put this all together and @tombennett71 put the series together. My take is I can see how it can work in math, grammar, phonics, and bits of writing. How does it translate to secondary outside of those subjects?
I love books about evidence based practice, and I love it when the evidence has been packaged into readable chunks as in the case of this short collection of essays. It is a convincing argument for direct instruction and knowledge curriculum and, for me at least, a reassuring rebuttal of the enquiry/discovery curriculum nonsense which I believe is failing our low attainment children. Another chapter or two dealing with the primary setting would have been welcome, as well as a thorough example of a 'script'. I would also like to see an exploration of the Hirsch/Engelmann argument as I have much admiration for both.
Makes a good case for the adoption of explicit and direct instruction (with and without initial capialisation) and a curriculum that is designed carefully. The chapters, although from different authors, build on and make reference to to one enough - perhaps to replicate the structures of DI. It can be hard in places to see how some of the techniques that are illustrated through subject specific examples can be easily applicable to all disciplines.