Education

This pages contains links to some of our favorite educational, precision teaching and Direct Instruction sites. We've placed new additions to the site at the top of the page, the rest are arranged alphabetically. Please scroll down and look around; there's a lot of great links here.

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Center for Programmed Instruction. Offers on-line tutorials on various behavioral subjects.
Direct Instruction tutorial. An interactive tutorial on Engelmann, Direct Instruction and Project Follow Through.
Engelmann biography. From the University of Oregon.
Funnix. A Reading program based on Direct Instruction.
Headsprout. A great site for early reading tutorials.
Increasing Endurance by Building Fluency: Precision Teaching Attention Span A paper by Carl Binder, Elizabeth Haughton, and Denise Van Eyk
Instructional Design SIG. This is the web site for the ABA special interest group.
LISTSERV: Precision Teaching/Standard Celeration Charting
Mathematics Instruction -- Specific Programs. Compares the effectiveness of various instructional approaches to math.
The Morningside Model of Generative Instruction A paper by Kent Johnson and T. V. Joe Layng
National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI). A Not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing school districts with a solid training program and approach for the implementation of Direct Instruction.
Precision Teaching tutorial. An interactive tutorial on Ogden Lindsley and Precision Teaching.
Precision teaching: Discoveries and effects A paper by Ogden Lindsley.
Precision Teaching's Unique Legacy from B. F. Skinner A paper by Ogden Lindsley.
Programmed Instruction: What It Is and How to Do It A paper by Ernest A. Vargas and Julie S. Vargas.
Standard Celeration Society. Home of the Standard Celeration Society.
Teach Your Children Well. Branch of QLC Educational Services, offering evidence-based educational methods.
ThinkFast. Fluency Building Software
Training Classics:Timeless Rules for Good Instruction. Details on Skinner's teaching machines and Markle's instructional design principles
Why aren't effective teaching tools widely adopted? A paper by Ogden Lindsley
Zig Engelmann's Site. Website of Direct Instruction's originator

OLDIES BUT GOODIES!

Association for Direct Instruction. This is the web site for ADI, a non-profit organization dedicated to dissemination of information on effective, research-proven practices for schools. It's simply the best. Join.
The Charter Day School. A Direct Instruction school in North Carolina.
Baltimore Curriculum Project. A school combining Direct Instruction with Core Knowledge , in, you guessed it, Baltimore, Maryland.
Behavior Home Page. This site is designed to provide allow school personnel, parents, and other professionals to access information, share effective practices, and receive ongoing consultation and technical assistance concerning behavior problems.
Celeration Technologies. Celeration Technologies is dedicated to developing effective and efficient solutions to problems of teaching/training and learning. The site contains some good software and references.
The Charter Day School. A Direct Instruction school in North Carolina.
Classical Charter School. A Direct Instruction school in Appleton, Wisconsin.
The Council for Exceptional Children. A professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or the gifted. Information for teachers, administrators, students, parents, paraprofessionals, related support service providers.
Direct Instruction Resources. A collection of links to other good DI pages.
Direct Instruction vs. "Discovery Learning." Carnegie Mellon Researchers say DI is best way to teach process skills in science.
Education that Works: The Child is Always Right. A great paper by Edward L. Anderson on effective teaching and learning.
Educational Resources Information Center. ERIC is a national information system with a database containing more than 1,000,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.
Effective Mathematics Instruction. A comparison of the effects of various mathematics programs on students' mathematics performance.
Effective School Practices - Volume 15, Number 1 (1995-96). Effective School Practices is published quarterly by the Association for Direct Instruction. The mission of the Association for Direct Instruction is to promote the improvement of educational methods.
Fairbanks County Day School. A Direct Instruction school in San Diego, California.
Great Leaps Reading. Great Leaps Reading uses sound, proven instructional tactics coupled with powerful motivators to efficiently remediate a variety of reading problems.
The High/Scope Preschool Curriculum Comparison Study Through Age 23: A Response by Englemann. This is Englemann's response to the High/Scope Preschool comparison study.
How and Why Phonics Works. A good description of phonics-based reading by the I Can Read program.
How Phonics Instruction Teaches Critical Thinking. More good information from the I Can Read folks.
I Can Read. I Can Read is an exciting new after-school reading program for children in the western Chicago suburbs. Lots of good information also!
IDEA '97. This site, sponsored by the US Department of Education's Office of Special Education, contains information about the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997.
Joe Layng Believes Education is a Science. An article from the University of Chicago Magazine about "bringing behaviorism into the classroom."
Materials to Guide Middle School Implementation. A bunch of materials from Bonnie Grossen related to effective education.
Math Practice Sheets for Fluency. Red Sarna's free exercise sheets for help with mathematics.
Morningside Academy. This is the web site for the Morningside Academy.
Our Failure To Follow Through. This article, Reprinted from New York Newsday, November 15, 1994 laments that fact that Direct Instruction, although found to be the most effective teaching method, has not been widely adopted.
Practice Mill. An authoring system to create and edit questions and create exams, practice sheets, flashcards - including SAFMEDS
Programmed Instruction Tutorial. An online tutorial that teaches about Programmed Instruction.
Reading Mastery Research Base. Dr. Bonnie Grossen discusses the large research base of Reading Mastery, which distinguishes it from all other currently available commercially developed reading programs.
Schoolhouse Technologies. A nice site that has software to create worksheets to assist in gaining fluency. They have some free stuff!
Sopris West. Sopris West is dedicated to helping education professionals and parents better meet the needs of students who are "at risk for school failure." Many products for effective education are available.
SRA Direct Instruction. This is the SRA/McGraw-Hill site where DI materials can be purchased. Lots of good info!
Standard Celeration Society Archives. This is a searchable archive related to celeration, the standard chart, and precision teaching.
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. Visit this site to purchase the outstanding book.
Teaching Effectiveness Program. This program, at the University of Oregon, work educators to improve their teaching skills. The site contains a bunch of good information.
What the data really show: "Old fashioned" teaching works! A nice article describing effective instruction.
What does it mean to be a research-based profession? An excellent paper by Bonnie Grossen.