This article presents an overview of Direct Instruction, a teacher-directed curriculum specifically designed to address the learning needs of underprivileged students who are at-risk of failing. This system of teaching was developed by Siegfried Engelmann in the 1960's and has recently resurfaced as a viable form of instructing those identified students who could benefit from the highly intensive, sequential instructions. Direct Instruction has certain characteristics: an academic focus; a... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2021. 3p.