I can sense that the tide is turning in the Australian education landscape. Keep up your good work Greg. How I wish I had been exposed to explicit instruction during my teacher training at uni - I would have been able to teach more effectively as a graduate teacher, and my students wouldn't have had to put up with me experimenting with less effective teaching strategies (i.e. guided-inquiry learning).
As a middle school general music, band, and high school jazz ensemble teacher, I can confirm, from experience, that explicit teaching and an understanding of cognitive load theory helps to make knowledgeable musicians. Like spoken and written language, and like mathematics, music is a system. The better that you understand the content, the better that you can express yourself and the better you can solve problems.
This is exactly what I discovered during my 20 years developing a K-2 writing curriculum. Except I didn’t know until 10 years into it that there was actually a name for what I was doing! It just made sense and it worked. If any readers are interested in what explicit instruction looks like for novice writers ages 5-8 please let me know. Or I can share my website with Greg’s permission.
Hi, This is how I tried to teach history and English. Explicit teaching in the Humanities is really important since a lot of information is being transfered which is then hopefully put to use in writing essays and sometimes using statistics.
I can sense that the tide is turning in the Australian education landscape. Keep up your good work Greg. How I wish I had been exposed to explicit instruction during my teacher training at uni - I would have been able to teach more effectively as a graduate teacher, and my students wouldn't have had to put up with me experimenting with less effective teaching strategies (i.e. guided-inquiry learning).
Hi Greg, I found this which is useful for pre-service teachers like me.
https://ministers.education.gov.au/clare/free-course-equips-teachers-explicit-teaching-skills
I'll enrol when I have time!
As a middle school general music, band, and high school jazz ensemble teacher, I can confirm, from experience, that explicit teaching and an understanding of cognitive load theory helps to make knowledgeable musicians. Like spoken and written language, and like mathematics, music is a system. The better that you understand the content, the better that you can express yourself and the better you can solve problems.
This is exactly what I discovered during my 20 years developing a K-2 writing curriculum. Except I didn’t know until 10 years into it that there was actually a name for what I was doing! It just made sense and it worked. If any readers are interested in what explicit instruction looks like for novice writers ages 5-8 please let me know. Or I can share my website with Greg’s permission.
Yes, please share your website.
Growingwriters.org
Hi, This is how I tried to teach history and English. Explicit teaching in the Humanities is really important since a lot of information is being transfered which is then hopefully put to use in writing essays and sometimes using statistics.