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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

11 months

I worked 13 hour days at least in my first 3 years of teaching. Than I realised it was pointless. 'Planning lessons'. Why? What impact on the kids? Then I implemented a canned curriculum. Best in the world. I don't work 13 hour days anymore and the kids get a much better deal

Luke Hayo

@Mr_Hayo99

11 months

This is absolute madness. 13 hour days. For what? What’s the return on investment? What is going on in ITT? Plan around how to teach the lessons and printing after school should be enough - with some reading scheduled. A lot of ‘evidence’ collecting & tick boxing.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

Teaching DI, a scripted curriculum, is much, much harder than a traditional curriculum in the same way that driving is harder than walking. The script 'unlocks' a whole universe of teaching that was invisible before because the teacher was too overloaded to perceive it

Zach Groshell

@MrZachG

1 year

@HKorbey @rpondiscio I do worry that many teachers, my early career self included, have been misled to believe that “canned curriculum” are an affront to their autonomy. I think this is silly, personally, as the decision making involved in teaching even with materials on hand is still very taxing

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

3 years

Pretty much the absolute most important, and least known about, thing in curriculum design is content analysis. But what is content analysis? Wonderful examples and diagrams here:

Features of Direct Instruction: Content Analysis

Behavior Analysis in Practice - The goal of Direct Instruction (DI) is to teach content as effectively and efficiently as possible. To do this, instructional designers must identify generative...

link.springer.com

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

The best way to avoid 'maths anxiety' is to actually teach students how to do maths. Best of all, teach them using the best programme in the world, Direct Instruction.

Bob Hughes

@BobHughesK12

1 year

This is an eye-opening survey from @nat_numeracy and @kpmguk . So many adults and students struggle with math anxiety. That’s why I’m excited we’re investing in math education over the next decade to help spark a deeper appreciation.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

3 years

The most important question in curriculum design is: 'What's the rule?' Find generalisable strategies like the one below for Complex Volume to increase practice time by decreasing strategy learning. Look how similar the generalisable formulae are:

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

By Y7, kids MUST have mastered language, reading, writing, spelling and arithmetic up to age-expected level. If they haven't, NOTHING matters more than bringing them up to that level. Empty curriculum slogans be damned.

Barry Smith

@BarryNSmith79

1 year

@head_teach @olicav When kids leave y11 still incredibly weak in so many basics. When ks3 full of 1hr/2hr pw lessons. When kids arrive in y7 so lacking in basics. Maybe narrow & imbalanced be better?

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

6 months

DI is indeed better in every circumstance. It was designed that way. No matter context, subject, age, phase. The only things that can defeat DI are poor behaviour and poor fidelity. Those two things defeat everything else, too, though.

Zach Groshell

@MrZachG

6 months

@Ed_by_design I will argue DI is better in every circumstance. That’s because DI encompasses the projects/critical thinking that PBL advocates prize. It’s just that DI doesn’t throw novices into things they can’t handle. It respects the limitations of working memory.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

10 months

Pretty much. A good curriculum is like a tree. Primary is the trunk. If you teach kids reading, writing, spelling, language and arithmetic to mastery in primary school, you can teach whatever you want at 1000 miles an hour in secondary.

Barry Smith

@BarryNSmith79

10 months

What if narrower curriculum is better? What if broader curriculum means employ teachers who aren’t very good just to demonstrate broad offer? What if don’t successfully get to grips with literacy/numeracy but still go ‘broad’ but actually not really best thing at all for pupils?

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

Mistakes are anathema to learning because without correction students practice them and they become more embedded. The brain has no algorithm for truth, all it has is feedback

Greg Ashman

@greg_ashman

1 year

When Boaler claims mistakes make the brain grow and that the positive effects occur even if we don’t know we’ve made a mistake, that matters because teachers are influenced by these claims and yet conflicting evidence suggests we should aim for a high success rate in class. 3/4

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

Yep, mastery is something the education sector seriously needs to understand. Something we DI people so often get is 'Why are students spending so much time repeating X basic skill?' This shows a fundamental lack of understanding of in the very basics of instruction

Education-Consumers

@EduConsumersFdn

1 year

Mastery is at the heart of Direct Instruction, and that is a main reason it should be in every K-3 classrooms in the US. Students need to master reading early, not be promoted from grade to grade without being able to read. .

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

This just in. When you teach kids how to read, they learn how to read. More as we get it.

Children in England ranked fourth globally for reading

Some countries were not included in the main rankings table after delaying testing due to the Covid pandemic.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

2 years

DI's effect on reading is statistically huge. DI's effect on maths is statistically huge. DI's effect on language is statistically huge. DI's effect on spelling is statistically huge.

Mike Tyler ن

@MikeTylerSport

2 years

This morning's PGCE session was a comparison and evaluation of direct instruction and minimally-guided instruction. Love it!

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

What if we got serious? What if we said not just empty political statements such as 'we need to do the best for our kids' but also 'we know how to do it' and 'we're going to do it no matter how hard it is'? In short, what if we actually did our jobs?

Education-Consumers

@EduConsumersFdn

1 year

@BenisonMrs And in all that time, Direct Instruction--shown back in the 70s to be the most effective instruction in the largest experiment ever--was never implemented. Wonder how that would have changed outcomes.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

2 years

But if all 50 teachers were given a prescribed, scripted programme, and were rigorously trained on that programme until they became stars, all 50 groups would learn the content in 6 months or less. End the lottery.

Evidence Based Education

@EvidenceInEdu

2 years

The impact of great teaching is quite staggering.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

2 years

Enjoyed the 3(!) sessions about Direct Instruction at researchED National? Come to see @suzywybrow @surrey_kevin and me present at @rEDSurrey2022 about practically implementing this in the real world. The movement is growing.

researchED Surrey

@rEDSurrey2024

2 years

Buzzing after @researchED1 National Conference? Thinking about bringing colleagues with you next time? Want to just feel that buzz again? Deep Thinking Networking Collaboration Inspiration Come to Surrey at @TeamFHES on Saturday 8th October. Details in our bio. #rED22

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

9 months

Most of the time, teaching, behaviour management, middle leadership and senior leadership is based on discovery learning. The main thing younger or newer teachers tend to discover is that there are better paid jobs out there where they get taught how to do the job.

Lamson Nguyen

@LamsonNguyen15

9 months

Discovery learning for teachers. If you're jumping off the cliff and building the airplane for the first time without an aerospace engineering degree, then students will be the casualty.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

If you think maths should be taught a different way, make a curriculum. Don't make bland statements of intent, belief, philosophy, feelings or politics. Make a curriculum. Then get that curriculum evaluated. If it's better than all the others, we should adopt it.

Amie Albrecht

@nomad_penguin

1 year

We should teach maths differently, in a way that doesn’t churn out mathophobes. When five-year-olds first encounter the subject, it’s as a creative, open-ended activity, involving play and exploration. … we should try to maintain that sense of exploration and open-endedness,

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

9 months

The system is still in DIY mode. 'Let's make a curriculum ourselves' Nope. Let's tuck the ego up nice and warm in bed... ... Then let's teach the thing that already exists and that works.

Luke Hayo

@Mr_Hayo99

9 months

Fascinating. I often ponder why Project Follow Through is seldom discussed in teacher training programs. Particularly in Primary education, Engellman's Direct Instruction has demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in driving progress.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

I think Engelmann's Direct Instruction is the programme that is MOST adaptive and flexible to individual student needs

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

3 years

New blog post, this time about 'Why Our Curricula Kill Learning': @Tom_Needham_ @Kris_Boulton @s_hall_teach

Why Our Curricula Kill Learning

In his book A System of Logic, John Stuart Mill put forward something he called ‘the method of the residue’. The idea is that the brain matches up free-floating effects with free-floati…

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

3 years

Great day at @rEDSurrey2021 ! Watched a fantastic session from @JTavassolyMarsh and even spoke myself with @suzywybrow and @surrey_kevin ! Here we are being interviewed for the 'more than a job' podcast on top of all that! Thank you @JTavassolyMarsh

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

3 years

Pleased to announce the opening of my blog and the completion of my first blog post, 'Engelmann's Responsive School Model' split into 4 parts: @surrey_kevin @richardtutt @s_hall_teach Useful for school leaders and those into Engelmann's work.

Blog

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

11 months

This is good. Perhaps design so that 15% of each lesson is new and 85% is review. Then the kids might remember some of what's taught, provided they can all read fluently. These samples of Academic Core: Shows what good fact system teaching looks like.

Luke Hayo

@Mr_Hayo99

11 months

This week I had been making a habit of questioning after every sentence of an explanation. Every single one. This ranged from unison class chant back to me to all hands up cold calling. It’s frequent and engaging. I, of course, target my questioning but always say ques first.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

Today I join @athenalearning_ as a DI maths teacher, delivering Corrective Maths. Excited to serve our students. Excited to work with smart, kind people.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

2 years

😍 Nothing is left out of DI maths CMC...

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

Long live the 'Saxon Shelf'. Best curriculum in the world for secondary maths.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

3 years

#rED2021 was fantastic. Only just now going home because of some passionate (long) conversations (the best kind). Thanks to @Tom_Needham_ @HeatherBellaF @P_A_Kirschner @mrbartonmaths @MrMattock Great sessions. Will blog soon (prob long term view re system and what we're doing)

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

This is AWESOME. Even better than the first. This post is not part of the comfy, vague world of CogSci/Attention/Memory/Teaching 'Techniques'. This post deals with specific content and specifically how to teach it. This is what we need to move towards as a profession.

Tom Needham

@Tom_Needham_

1 year

NEW POST: Creating Instructional Sequences 2- An Example.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

8 months

Just teach Direct Instruction.

Jill Barshay

@jillbarshay

9 months

More importantly, it isn't easy to incorporate random cog sci findings into a lesson. Curriculum design is really challenging and it's hard to know the optimal timing of spaced retrieval practice and which previously taught things should be reviewed each day. (4/4)

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@JonOwenDI

1 year

Big advantage of DI is that the average teacher can become facile at teaching it in a year and a star teacher within 3 years!

Dylan Wiliam

@dylanwiliam

1 year

@primarypercival As my friend @rpondiscio points out, we need teaching to be a job that ordinary humans can do. In my view any system in which teaching can only be done well by those with extraordinary ability and charisma is a system that will be failing its youth.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

9 months

My programme! I teach this, every day, 5 hours a day. It's the best.

Zach Groshell

@MrZachG

9 months

Oh hi there

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

It's important for us to remember that the point of school is to make kids successful, not to make teachers 'autonomous'. It's about the kids, not the egos of teachers

Schools Week

@SchoolsWeek

1 year

'What is taught and how it is taught have become matters to be decided outside the classroom and the school' - @DanielKebedeNEU

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

2 years

'We need a cohort of managers who can meet the challenge of the 21st century'. '65% of children will have jobs that don't currently exist'. 'Young people don't have soft skills such as team-working, creativity or problem solving'. JUST STOP.

Andrew Old

@oldandrewuk

2 years

This is heart breaking. Both because we urgently need a Labour Party that understands education and because Blunkett's not even doing anything about the destruction of his own legacy.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

2 years

@MsGHist Engelmann's Direct Instruction. Most research-validated approach to teaching ever. Best place to start is Clear Teaching. It costs £3 on Kindle:

Clear Teaching: With Direct Instruction, Siegfried Engelmann Discovered a Better Way of Teaching

Written by veteran journalist Shepard Barbash over a period of 10 years, Clear Teaching is a well-researched, highly readable introduction to Direct Instruction (DI), a systematic teaching approach...

www.amazon.co.uk

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

3 years

I have also visited @avonbourneTandL and seen these line ups. Anyone in a school trying to implement these should watch 'the real thing' at this school. Also watch @surrey_kevin and @suzywybrow teaching DI if you get the chance. You won't ever observe better use of lesson time.

Naveen Rizvi

@naveenfrizvi

3 years

NEW POST: I saw 6 minutes of time-efficient magic at @AvonbourneUL How efficient and effective is your school's pupil lineup?

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

Every single one of my lessons was planned in 1981. They were re-written and republished in 2005. I use the 2005 ones. Sound bonkers? Well I think the alternative is bonkers.

Luke Hayo

@Mr_Hayo99

1 year

One of the absolute biggest reasons people choose not to teach or drop out. What other profession demands this? I can’t wrap my head around it!

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

And if we listened to the results of Project Follow Through, we'd create a generation capable of achieving everything else on that list with its eyes shut.

Dale Chu

@Dale_Chu

1 year

I’d humbly add Project Follow Through to the mix.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

This article has tired fallacious logic. 'Great maths students are great problem solvers, so we should teach students to be great problem solvers'. Like saying 'Hey dude who's never picked up a tennis racket, just be like Andy Murray. C'mon man, why's it so hard?'

Holly Korbey

@HKorbey

1 year

This math teacher implies that for kids who say they are bad at math, there isn't really any helping them get better—so they can just perform a skit or do an art project about math instead.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

Still in the dark ages. 'A recent report showed that teacher training graduates felt confident about their knowledge and skills.' Irrelevant. It's like: 'A recent report showed that surgeons felt confident about the number of lives they'd saved.' Reaction: 'Wait, WHAT?!'

Anne Glennie

@anneglennie

1 year

PETITION UPDATE: Response from Jenny Gilruth, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

Got the sense for the first time today that we're really getting something going here with DI in the UK. Worked with a group of teachers who knew about DI and were passionate about it. Before you'd have had to travel to the USA to experience that. Exciting.

Suzy Wybrow

@suzywybrow

1 year

We made it to Hinckley for the Direct Instruction UK Teaching Academy 2024 hosted by the @MidlandAT Welcoming 28 teachers and leaders from across the country today who wished to be trained in Corrective Maths and Corrective Reading @NIFDI and @DIHubUK MAGICAL! @DI_Kim1

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

Not only is every one of my lessons from a textbook, every instructional word I say in every lesson is scripted. I just have to keep my eyelids open with matchsticks, it's so goddamn boring! Oh, wait, actually, it's the most thrilling thing in the world.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

6 months

This programme is my working existence. 'These are facts that start with 5. We're going to read the facts together, starting with 5+1'. No matter the storm on twitter or in politics, you put on your uniform, pick up your script, and again... 'These are facts that start with 5'

tetheredtoed

@tetheredtoed1

6 months

⁦ @MrZachG ⁩ which is this explicit and direct math program you are using and enthusiastic about? This week’s pod is excellent btw

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

9 months

Absolutely. Counter intuitive but vital. The idea is that if the answer can't come out of their mouths, it won't come down their arms and out of their pencils. Verbal mistakes are much easier to correct than written mistakes!

Zach Groshell

@MrZachG

9 months

#6 is the hardest one to understand. It’s that at first you have kids responding aloud so you can check they understand it. Once you see they can, it’s no longer as necessary; they can work problems on paper without having to verbalize it.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

3 years

Fantastic training day with @DISouthHub . @suzywybrow and @surrey_kevin do an amazing job providing initial training. This is exactly what you need if you're implementing DI!

The Albion Academy

@AlbionAcademy

3 years

Can’t wait. Really looking forward to building this into our curriculum and literacy package from next Half Term.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

10 months

Good article summarising research on the impact of DI on children with autism.

Direct Instruction

While direct instruction has clearly been shown to be an effective teaching strategy for a variety of populations, additional research is needed...

asatonline.org

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

I remember many hours of training years ago on 'metacognition'. After weeks of CPD for an hour after school, the discussion in the maths department started, bemused and amused: 'So... What is metacognition?' 'Errr... Learning to learn?' '... Riiiiiighty ho'

Greg Ashman

@greg_ashman

1 year

I did warn this would happen to ‘metacognition’

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

Another alternative to current teacher training would be to use a solid programme like Direct Instruction, so no-one needs to sit down and 'plan a lesson' or 'plan out an explanation'. Instead, error correction and reinforcement techniques can be practiced. Much more efficient

Paul A. Kirschner

@P_A_Kirschner

1 year

Discovery learning in all its forms is characterised by the single worst idea in education — that we learn something better by figuring it out for ourselves. A blog about the structural problem with teacher education @greg_ashman

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@JonOwenDI

1 year

'The National Institute for Direct Instruction (UK)'. That's us! @KevinSurreyDI @suzywybrow . Come see us!

researchED Berks

@rEDBerks

1 year

You asked.... we delivered. Here is your FULL LINE UP FOR 2023! @researchED1 BUY YOUR TICKETS HERE:

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

9 months

Yes, but the students give you information about your pacing. Off-task behaviour might be caused by slow pacing. Incorrect responses might be caused by too-fast pacing.

Zach Groshell

@MrZachG

9 months

Doesn’t this paragraph just perfectly show how hard it is to pin down what “good pacing” actually is?

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

7 months

To do this efficiently you need a programme designed so that errors can be remediated by falling back one step in the routine. For this to be possible, it teaches one thing at a time. No step should be assumed to be mastered until it has been presented in at least 3 lessons.

Zach Groshell

@MrZachG

7 months

@NagerSarah Here’s what I recommend. Get in front of errors by anticipating them, teach part tasks instead of multistep problems using whiteboards and adjust as errors come in. Don’t let kids fall off the bus. Build up to multi step problems gradually so you can actually locate the errors.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

10 months

Just teach DI.

Hannah Frankman

@HannahFrankman

10 months

What’s your hottest take on education? 👇

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

Ahh the old rule, 'Engelmann did it first'. He beat these guys to this one by about 60 years.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

2 years

WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ENGELMANN'S DIRECT INSTRUCTION? **NEW** BLOG POST: A guide to Direct Instruction (Post 2: Research on Direct Instruction).

A Guide to Direct Instruction (Post 2: Research on Direct Instruction)

Following is Chapter 2 of a guide to Direct Instruction written by Don and Deborah Steely in 2013. Permission to reproduce has been granted by the authors: Direct Instruction has the strongest rese…

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

I was also told perhaps over a dozen times in my first year 'don't reinvent the wheel'. Two questions: 1. What does that actually mean? 2. Why are virtually all teachers constantly reinventing the wheel then? (This is what 'planning' is).

Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

HAH! I was advised in my first year perhaps over a dozen times to ignore 'don't smile till Christmas'. Problem was, no-one ever told me 'don't smile till Christmas'. Obviously.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

What you've described is essentially the National Institute of Direct Instruction's annual DI conference

Zach Groshell

@MrZachG

1 year

I want to start an education conference series where we just go to large breweries near me with no reservations and talk about research and direct instruction. Like, “The Pacific Northwest’s Quasi-annual Meeting of Minds of People Who Just Tell Them and Help Them Read Good”

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

There may not be many of us, but we fight on! ✊

Suzy Wybrow

@suzywybrow

1 year

I've been invited again to attend the National Institute for Direct Instruction @NIFDI Conference in Eugene, Oregon US in July 🇺🇲✈️ Booking my flights as I type! ... Just a tad excited 🤭 @DI_Kim1 @JonOwenDI @KevinSurreyDI #DITeamUK #DreamTeam #Engelmann #DirectInstruction

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

7 months

Doctors, pilots, anyone involved in public transportation, lawyers, engineers and so many other professionals are all 'mere implementers'. Take someone else's guidebook and implement it. That's because these professions are important enough that you mustn't mess them up.

Morgs

@MorgsEdu

7 months

I respect the view that prescribing techniques may relegate teachers to mere implementers, stifling their responsiveness and undermining their professional judgement. But, standardising these techniques, in my opinion, only serves to develop teacher autonomy.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

LIGHT THE BEACONS! Intro to DI Webinar, delivered by NIFDI, the WORLD'S GOLD STANDARD DI TRAINING PROVIDER. WEDS 26TH APR (next Weds). Sign up here!

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

2 years

Sold a Story has now broken into the Top 10 on the US Apple Podcast Charts 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

2 years

Holy CRAP! Well done @GreenshawTrust . Students will be fluent in no time at all. EaL will not be a barrier in any Greenshaw school.

Suzy Wybrow

@suzywybrow

2 years

SUPER EXCITED for the @GreenshawTrust embarking on our next Direct Instruction journey, introducing DISE (EAL programme) across our schools! Being trained by Zig's team, @NIFDI themselves 🤩 DISE will take it to another level 💪

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

10 months

Revision is terrifying, difficult and punishing because students didn't learn it the first time

Lamson Nguyen

@LamsonNguyen15

10 months

I completely agree, but one thing that drives me is using cognitive load theory, HQIM etc to decrease the amount of studying needed. Do students need to study? Yes. Does the way we present information, provide opportunities for recall, etc have an impact on studying time? Yes.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

2 years

I and some colleagues will be lucky enough to be watching Dr. Archer give the keynote speech at the DI National Conference in Eugene, Oregon this summer. 'I do it, we do it, you do it!' @naveenfrizvi @MrsSandersMaths @Lindsey_LimeCPD @surrey_kevin

Darren Leslie

@dnleslie

2 years

A great graphic on expertise reversal effect & scaffolding support. The I/We/You model of Anita Archer is excellent for this. I’d also recommend using a visualiser, incredibly powerful for worked examples and sharing the work of students.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

A dense quote in many ways. 1) absolves teachers of responsibility for failing kids. 2) implies that some kids cannot learn 3) stigmatises kids who struggle to learn because of poor teaching. 4) downplays the importance of literacy because the current year begins with a 2.

Sunil Singh

@Mathgarden

1 year

Thinking about @joboaler keynote and those that pushback against change. Here’s Future Shock(1970) author Alvin Toffler shutting them down in no uncertain volume. @CAMathCouncil #CMCcentral #CMCMath

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

11 months

Yes. Big mistake schools make (even those with competitively much better thought through INSETs) is to treat behaviour as if it's academic teaching. Here's a slide with the rules on it. Remember these rules. In fact, behaviour is physical teaching. Totally different...

Barry Smith

@BarryNSmith79

11 months

Some pointers on how to get corridors right.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

Very good talk! We need to move on from thinking of teaching as some egotistical or romantic exercise, and we need to start viewing it more like an emergency service. That's what it is for millions for children (if not all of them!)

Ben Newmark

@bennewmark

1 year

New - Who are schools for? Transcript from my talk at @rEDBerks

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

To take it to the next level, you could use scripts made by the greatest educationalists of all time, refined constantly for half a century. Direct Instruction.

Barry Smith

@BarryNSmith79

1 year

Makes sense. Takes lots of careful reflection to be precise & concise in your delivery. ‘Scripts’, and I’d advocate whole school ‘scripts’ on many levels, help teachers express themselves more clearly. ⁦ @naveenfrizvi ⁩

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

Secondary maths. Sorted.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

2 years

Sold a Story now #13 on US Apple Podcast Charts. Hopefully it keeps going higher!

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

Want to get incredible results *as well as* reduce workload? Implement Direct Instruction in your school.

Adam Boxer (find me on 🧵s)

@adamboxer1

1 year

When Michaela first started, part of the reason I was so enamoured with them was because they promised results *as well as* reducing workload. It's a shame to see this now. It isn't sustainable or manageable for working parents, and is a bad example to set.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

2 years

Brilliant blog. A child systematically failed. All consultants either piagetian or labelling him with various 'disorders'. The school only fobbing off his mother. Meanwhile, all she wants is for someone to teach him to read. All too common.

Thinking Reading

@ThinkReadHQ

2 years

This is a shocking, but sadly not uncommon, experience for parents of struggling readers. Read our guest blog 'Am I to Blame?' (7 min read) #EduTwitter

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

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@abbyaug Perhaps deeper fulfillment might be the reason, rather than pleasure. The deep fulfillment of making kids smart even when it's tough. Then teaching gets tough, what then? There are many times when the job is not a pleasure.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

Snippets of the very first and very last lessons of this 11-year sequence. Inspiring.

Kevin Surrey

@KevinSurreyDI

1 year

Between @JonOwenDI and I we have a complete curriculum of Maths that has been field tested from Year 1 to Year 13... Just imagine a 5 year old starting this journey & where they will be at the age of 18. Even teachers workload is reduced without having to do unnecessary planning.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

9 months

@NielsHoven @MrZachG Engelmann did this fifty years ago. And again 20 years ago. The program is called Funnix. @FunnixReading @EngelmannBecker

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

2 years

All this talk about curriculum. Just buy one which is research-validated like DI and get on with teaching it. Or we can spend the next few DECADES building a weak imitation. What about the kids though?

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

2 years

Tickets going fast. Plan now to see @surrey_kevin @suzywybrow and me present on 'Why Engelmann's Direct Instruction is the Best Catch-Up Curriculum for English and Maths'! One week to go!

researchED Surrey

@rEDSurrey2024

2 years

🚨One week to go!!!🚨 Due to popular demand, we have released a further 100 tickets this morning via Eventbrite. Check out the presenters. Check out the content. Check out the diversity of themes. Get your ticket. 8.10.22 #rEDSurrey22

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

Because the people who wrote it know nothing about curriculum design.

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@JonOwenDI

10 months

Exactly! It's a pretty simple formula. First you ask: What do the best do? Then you say: Let's do that. It's what brought me to DI.

Ian White

@ianwhite21

10 months

5. Which schools have high prior attainment, high FSM and high P8? (Hello Hackney) Labour should visit these schools. And then start talking about stuff that improves schools - behaviour, explicit teaching, high expectations. Not bloody oracy.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

7 months

Just read 'Direct Instruction Mathematics'

Kate Winn

@thismomloves

7 months

We hear a lot about the science of reading…is there a “science of math”? In this great interview @rastokke shares what evidence tells us is necessary for effective math instruction.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

Teach kids to read by guessing at pictures, or by doing a headstand? No punishment from the environment. This lack of feedback makes the problem of effective instruction complex enough that people get confused about what to do, and snake oil salesmen profit.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

I can imagine it. I can also live it, because it's my reality every day. No wasted time, just teaching kids to mastery. Direct Instruction works.

Mandy

@mandylorianm

1 year

Can you imagine not having to constantly “reinvent the wheel” spending countless hours writing & rewriting lesson plans, paying for resources w/ your own money, and scouring the internet for something that works? You could have an actual work/life balance during the school year?

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

2 years

We saw Anita delivering these in-person at the National DI Conference 2022 @NIFDI @KevinSurreyDI @naveenfrizvi @MrsSandersMaths @Linds_Bennett @suzywybrow @DI_Kim1

𝗗𝗿 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝘄𝗮𝗶𝗻

@NathanielRSwain

2 years

These are great!!

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

3 years

People often think that 95% of the impact of DI can be achieved with di. In fact, the figure is perhaps 5%. The other 95% is due to things DI has which di does not, such as Content Analysis, placement testing, mastery criteria, and yes, communication control though scripts.

Greg Ashman

@greg_ashman

3 years

NEW TODAY Practical People: What the fear of scripted lessons tells us about teaching cc ⁦ @Doug_Lemov ⁩

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

2 years

@CobblesAnn Will be publishing a guide on Engelmann's DI to my blog soon, written by an experienced DI co-author.

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@JonOwenDI

1 year

Do what these guys are doing

Suzy Wybrow

@suzywybrow

1 year

Another successful @GreenshawTrust Direct Instruction termly meeting. So lucky to work with the best team! Looking forward to again seeing those amazing end of year outcomes and with the DISE EAL programme now in place, we will achieve greater things 🙌🙌🙌 #winning

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

@Hayo_luke But can they all read But can they all read But can they all read But can they all read But can they all read But can they all read But can they all read But can they all read But can they all read But can they all read But can they all read But can they all read

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

3 years

Just got some explicit teaching from @suzywybrow so now my handle is the dramatically simpler @JonOwenDI .

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

2 years

Sold a story is now #20 on the US Apple Podcast charts. If you are any kind of teacher or educationalist in any country in the world, please listen to it! With numbers like these we'll make a difference and you'll be a part of that.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

This is because with physical learning, the right approach is obvious. This is because the physical environment takes care of the feedback. Wrong note, catastrophe. No teacher input need. In cognitive instruction, this is not the case, so all sorts of silly approaches are used.

Zach Groshell

@MrZachG

1 year

@RaquelMTeaches @TheAaveMaria They save the discovery learning for elementary music, unless they want them to actually perform. If they want them to sing a song or play it on a recorder, they'll use di guaranteed. Anytime the goal is to be able to do something they couldn't before, they'll use di

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

2 years

Word-for-word what we said at @rEDSurrey2022 @KevinSurreyDI @suzywybrow 'There's a better way... And it's called Direct Instruction'.

Education-Consumers

@EduConsumersFdn

2 years

Yes, and it's called Direct Instruction. Check out Project Follow Through from 40+ yrs ago.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

'The problem is that our national curriculum is not really a national curriculum at all.' It's indicative that the most basic thing imaginable in our education system has the wrong name.

Daisy Christodoulou

@daisychristo

1 year

Primary teachers are complaining about the Sats reading paper, saying it left students in tears & featured antiquated topics about dodos & lost queens. That's not a news story from last week, but from 2016. Why do the same complaints keep happening?

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

11 months

The act of designing a curriculum is the act of 'playing Engelmann'. The only two I've found to whom this doesn't apply is John Saxon and Michel Thomas. (Though Thomas barely cuts the mustard). Saxon, remarkably, appears to have been a genius approaching that of Engelmann

Lamson Nguyen

@LamsonNguyen15

11 months

If you can't beat it, join it. Teachers are not curriculum designers and curriculum designers are not Engelmann. Better to start with, and then build upon, his legacy than to poorly reinvent the wheel.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

3 years

It was great to appear on the More than a Job podcast, talking about Siegfried Engelmann's work and also about Bjork's Spacing Effect.

Morethanajob

@_Morethanajob

3 years

PART 2 of @rEDSurrey2021 💥 @profbeckyallen & @head_teach 💥 @daisychristo 💥 @surrey_kevin , @suzywybrow & @JonOwenDI 💥 @R_6andtherest 💥 @EnserMark 💥 @jonesy_miss 💥 @m_chiles 💥 @PatriceBain1 @researchED1 @researchED_US @researchEDBrum

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Jon Owen

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1 year

And also. 1) The primary bit is scripted 2) NONE of it is topic-based 3) All is carefully sequenced 4) All has continual practice and review 5) The secondary bit is very rigorous 6) All have countless studies of insane student performance when educators occasionally implement

Kevin Surrey

@KevinSurreyDI

1 year

Between @JonOwenDI and I we have a complete curriculum of Maths that has been field tested from Year 1 to Year 13... Just imagine a 5 year old starting this journey & where they will be at the age of 18. Even teachers workload is reduced without having to do unnecessary planning.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

3 years

This is the first book I read on DI and it's still by far the best. It: -Explains what mastery actually is -Gives directives for EVERY important class eventuality (eg what do I say at the start of the year?) -Is super easy to read and is short -Is applicable to any lesson .......

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

9 months

Silent corridors are not somewhat common in the UK. I'd estimate a fraction of 1% of schools in the UK have silent corridors.

Kevin Fulton

@Teacher_Fulton

9 months

@BradWilcoxIFS I think more US schools should consider something like silent corridors, an approach that is somewhat common in the UK.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

8 months

The kids of the DI authors were all taught using DI. The proportion of them who went to Ivy League universities is staggering. Turns out that when the door isn't slammed shut in their faces, most kids will choose to walk through it

Wendy Z

@WendyZ6565

8 months

@AlecMahony @JonOwenDI 2 of the children with autism who I taught for3 years 40 years ago are more accurate writers (grammar&spelling) than many of college students I taught. One wrote a weekly letter to other family. All Kids with no autism soared. My daughter had DI reading &later went to Harvard.

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

2 years

How to implement Engelmann's Direct Instruction in Primary Schools

Implementing a Direct Instruction (Siegfried Engelmann) programme, in a primary school: challenges and opportunities by Dr Nazam Hussain, Educational Psychologist16 November 2022From working as an...

www.direct-instruction.co.uk

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

Funny. Spend 60 years rediscovering the principles behind a ready-made curriculum called Direct Instruction and packaging those principles as 'Science of Reading'. Then, worry that there is no SoR curriculum...

Tyra Harrison

@Tyharri

1 year

“Even within the movement, there are quiet rumblings of worry. There is no established curriculum for the science of reading — it refers to a large body of research that must be woven into the craft of teaching.” 👆🏾This…how are we preparing CAOs & curriculum leaders to do this?

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

11 months

Very well put. Kids spin the roulette wheel when they enter through the threshold every day.

Pamela Snow

@PamelaSnow2

11 months

The comment below was in response to a LinkedIn post of mine about the @abcnews story on reading instruction over the weekend (). Worth reading in full. 🎯🎯🎯

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Jon Owen

@JonOwenDI

1 year

The most important part for me was the idea that the delivery techniques do not matter if the curriculum sucks! The curriculum matters more than anything else. Until that is good, nothing else follows

Tom Koenig

@MrT_Koenig

1 year

I’m just going to keep RTing that amazing @MrZachG interview he did with Marcy Stein until everyone has listened to it twice. #DI

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