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Direct Instruction works wonders in Northern Territory schools

When they told Cath Greene about the change to Direct Instruction she was indignant. Everyone who had visited her little school in the red dirt north of Alice Springs seemed to love what she was trying to do with the kids. One of the nation’s top indigenous educators, Chris Sarra, called the classes beautiful. Ntaria School principal Cath Greene with Faye Ratara. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen There was just one problem. Four years after she became principal of Ntaria School, most of the children still struggled to speak English, let alone read it. Many were leaving for high school — or just leaving — with Year 1 levels of literacy and numeracy. Greene knew this couldn’t go on. Reluctantly, she agreed to give DI a go. Three years on, the results are in for Ntaria and 38 other schools in remote reaches of the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland that participated in a $23.5 million trial of Direct Instruction teaching. The controversi...

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