PSYC 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Sequence, Direct Instruction
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Chapter 7 - the effective lesson: direct instruction. Identify and apply a direct instruction approach to teaching. Describe the components of a lesson plan. At times, the most effective and efficient way to teach students is for you to present information, skills, or concepts in a direct fashion. The term direct instruction is used to describe lessons in which you transmit information directly to students, structuring class time to reach a clearly defined set of objectives as efficiently as possible. Direct instruction is particularly appropriate for teaching a well-defined body of information or skills that all students must master. This is how a teacher presents a lesson to students: state learning objectives. In this step you teach the lesson by: Effective teaching requires you to be constantly aware of the effects of your instruction. The term learning probe refers to any of a variety of ways of asking for brief student responses to lesson content.
