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Surprise, surprise: explicit instruction is far more effective for children than enquiry based learning… You think? As a general rule, people don’t know what they don’t know. And children don’t know a heck of a lot and are largely incapable of discovering it on their own. They need parameters and guide rails to truly succeed. Anyone who has tried to teach kids to swim for the first time knows this. Some kids take to it quickly, but all are at least concerned about falling under the water…and some scream the pool down…until they learn how to swim or float…if it was up to most kids, they’d never swim. But Australian parents have taken our kids to explicit instruction swimming lessons for decades, and we have reaped the benefits in the pool and in our society. Sometimes it takes science a while to catch up to history… and it takes ideology a long time to catch up when science says things that ideology doesn’t want to hear. And finally, the educational ideologues are now far more weakened as the Catholics go back to doing what they done well for nearly 2000 years…explicit instruction. It will be interesting to see whether a class action against the state can/will be brought by/for those disadvantaged in the past by the enquiry based systems forced upon them…

The big change coming to the way Catholic school kids are taught — The Age

The big change coming to the way Catholic school kids are taught — The Age

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