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Direct Instruction, sometimes referred to as explicit teaching or teaching for mastery, is an instructional approach centred on structured, sequential learning supported by clear teacher guidance. In this approach, content is broken into smaller components and introduced step by step, with instructors modelling expected skills, providing guided practice, and offering immediate feedback. Learning is structured…

Blog Post #1

Prompt: What concept did you find difficult to understand? How did you approach learning the concept? The learning theory that I found most difficult to understand was cognitivism, especially the concepts of schema formation and efficient knowledge processing. At first, I was confused about what schemas represented and how learning could be explained by viewing…