Show notes:

1. I give background to this series on discussions on Education Reform
2. I give Dave a choice of topics (notice that we never get to three
   because he says he'll fly through the first two, but we spend most of
   the show on them)
3. Dave and I discuss the assumptions and flaws built-in to education research
4. We then digress into Direct Instruction and scripted curriculum
   • Alice describes Direct Instruction curriculum and her experience actually teaching with it.
   • Dave talks about adjusting instruction for the teacher and how it
     may be more important (or as important) as adjusting for the students.
5. We segue into how our expectations as professionals and how we should teach can undermine each other.
6. Then we take a turn onto scheduling and the idea of scheduling for
   periods of much different duration (30 minutes, 1 hour, two and half
   hours), and adjusting instruction with those constraints.

Conclusion: You can't anticipate everything about your class and how they will learn, good teachers need to be flexible.

Links of relevance to the discussion:

• PARC study on WoW
• Dave's post on dubious science of education research
• My post on what works

I'm sure there are other links that would be very relevant, but I'm not remembering them now.