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Features Of Direct Instruction: Content Analysis, Timothy A. Slocum, Kristen R. Rolf
Features Of Direct Instruction: Content Analysis, Timothy A. Slocum, Kristen R. Rolf
Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling Faculty Publications
The goal of Direct Instruction (DI) is to teach content as effectively and efficiently as possible. To do this, instructional designers must identify generative relations or strategies that allow the learner to respond correctly to untaught situations. The purpose of content analysis is to identify generative relations in the domain to be taught and arrange the content in such a way that it supports maximally generative instruction. This article explains the role of content analysis in developing DI programs and provides examples and nonexamples of content analysis in five content domains: spelling, basic arithmetic facts, earth science, basic language, and …
Features Of Direct Instruction: Interactive Lessons, Kristen R. Rolf, Timothy A. Slocum
Features Of Direct Instruction: Interactive Lessons, Kristen R. Rolf, Timothy A. Slocum
Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling Faculty Publications
Direct Instruction (DI) teaches challenging academic content to a range of diverse learners. In order to do so, DI includes a complex system for organizing and directing teacher–student interactions to maximize learning. This system includes: instructional formats that specify the interactions between teacher and student, flexible skills-based groupings, active student responding, responsive interactions between students and teachers, ongoing data-based decision making, and mastery teaching. In this article, we describe each of these main features of the system, define their functions, reveal how they are interwoven throughout all DI lessons, and provide specific examples of their application during instruction. Our goal …