Direct or Indirect Instruction?
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The teacher begins the lesson with a review of the previous day’s work.
Direct
(wrong answers:
Indirect)
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The teacher focuses student responses using induction and/or deduction to refine and focus generalizations.
Indirect
(wrong answers:
Direct)
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The teacher provides and opportunity for guided practice on a small number of sample problems and then prompts and models when necessary to attain 60-80% accuracy.
Direct
(wrong answers:
Indirect)
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The teacher draws additional examples from students’ own experiences, interests and problems.
Indirect
(wrong answers:
Direct)
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The teacher provides opportunity for independent practice with seatwork and strives for automatic responses that are 95% correct or higher.
Direct
(wrong answers:
Indirect)
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The teacher promotes and moderate’s discussion to firm up and extend generalizations when necessary.
Indirect
(wrong answers:
Direct)
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Teacher begins the lesson with advance organizers that provide an overall picture and allow for concept expansion.
Indirect
(wrong answers:
Direct)