TRT Podcast #215: Anything but boring: The power of direct instruction with Dr. Zach Groshell
Dr. Zach Groshell explains what direct instruction is and why it’s so effective for student learning. He also shares specific classroom strategies teachers can start using right away.
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Learn more from Dr. Zach Groshell:
- His book, Just Tell Them: The Power of Explanations and Explicit Teaching
- Professional development from Steplab
- Progressively Incorrect, the podcast
- Presentation with The Reading League Illinois on Cognitive Load & Explicit Instruction
- Just Tell Them: Explicit Teaching, presentation with Mind the Gap
- Exploring Explicit Teaching, with the Thinking Deeply about Primary Education podcast
Additional resources mentioned in this episode:
- Direct Instruction: A practitioner’s handbook, book by Kurt Engelmann
- Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, book by Siegfried Engelmann
- Anita Archer’s Explicit Instruction website
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