Teachers use many teaching approaches to impart knowledge. Pitting one against another harms education
- Written by: Alan Reid, Professor Emeritus of Education, University of South Australia
ShutterstockThe education debate in Australia has, for some time now, been marred by the presence of a simple binary: explicit teaching, or direct instruction, versus inquiry-based learning.
Simply put, explicit teaching is a structured sequence of learning led by the teacher, who demonstrates and explains a new concept or technique, and kids...