Direct Instruction

When teaching the whole class it is important to be clear and concise not the bore them with dialog or take up too much of their engaged time.  The instruction time should be both before and after the group activities and be used to:

• Directing/sharing teaching objectives
• Instructing/giving information
• Demonstrating/modelling
• Explaining and Illustrating/giving further examples and step by step solutions
• Questioning and Discussing/listening carefully to students and eliciting higher order responses
• Consolidating/get students reflecting on their ideas
• Evaluating students' responses/students justify their methods and clarify their ideas/ teacher feedback
• Summarizing/reviewing all that was learned and clarify misunderstandings