1. Direct Instruction

2. Understanding Your Student Population
It is essential to take the time to get to know your “audience.”
Students’ learning styles
Students’ learning needs
Students’ perceptions about learning
Clarifies where you may need to start with instruction
Establishes credibility with students
This class is about them, not just the content you are teaching
Helps us, as teachers better frame model of information delivery

3. Some Differences between Regular & Special Education
Regular education and special education are based on different learning theories.
Regular Education  Constructivism
Special Education  Objectivism
Under objectivism is behaviorism
Behaviorism  Direct Instruction

4. Direct Instruction (DI)
Explicit objectives
Present the new information
Present examples and non-examples
Guided Practice
Error correction/clear instructional feedback
Promote high rates of accuracy
Quick paced and interactive
Evaluation of instruction/collection of data

5. Questions?