THE
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF DIRECT INSTRUCTION
1.
Advantages
of Direct Instruction
The advantages of direct instruction teaching are that:
a) The teacher
has control of the timing of the lesson.
b) Students are
physically easy to monitor.
c) The teacher
has control over what will be learned, and who will learn. If you want to
reward the middle class students, this is the kind of teaching method to use.
d) The curriculum
can be covered, so the teacher can say that s/he taught the material.
2.
Disadvantages
of Direct Instruction
The disadvantages of direct instruction teaching are that:
a) It is based
on old learning theories: that we must learn simple tasks before complex ones,
and that only measurable learning is worth while.
b) Students do
not have a sense of the overall purpose of the simple steps. However, if you
tell them the purpose, by using advance organizers, this disadvantage is
overcome.
c) Teachers
cannot assess what the students’ prior knowledge is, so will be unaware of why
particular students cannot learn.
d) Retention of
how to solve the problems is low, because the students have not struggled with
the problem themselves. This disadvantage can be overcome by having the
students do many many complex problems on their own. However, this means that
one of the advantages (time efficiency) is lost!
e) Direct
instruction as an instructional method works for only a small per centage of
students, not for a great variety. The students who have other than verbal
“intelligence”, or who come from different cultural world
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