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Teaching Method: Direct Instruction

The teaching method at Legacy of Learning is based upon Direct Instruction.  The goal of DI is to accelerate learning by providing a clear and rigorously logical sequence of instruction. Teachers move quickly and ask students many questions to check their understanding. Students are tested frequently to ensure mastery of core concepts, and problems are corrected effectively and immediately. By using scripted programs that have been proven to work, the teacher is providing consistent and precise instruction.

 

Siegfried Engelmann has been one of the key participants in this debate over the years, and a major contributor to its resolution. Pursuing this interest, Engelmann quit the advertising business in 1964 and became senior educational specialist at the Institute for Research on Exceptional Children at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. There, his research into the effectiveness of different teaching methods in the education of underprivileged children led him to develop the Direct Instruction method of teaching.