It uses the Direct Instruction ( DI ) teaching method, which was originally developed by Engelmann and Wesley C. Becker.

* Direct Instruction, an instructional method focused on a systematic curriculum design

* Direct Instruction

Direct Instruction ( DI ) is an instructional method that is focused on systematic curriculum design and skillful implementation of a prescribed behavioral script.

The DISTAR ( Direct Instruction System for Teaching Arithmetic and Reading ) program gained prominence during Project Follow Through ( 1967 – 1995 ), the largest federally funded experiment in public education.

Direct Instruction has been effectively delivered through peers to students with learning disabilities.

In the past decade Direct Instruction curricula, especially Language for Learning, have become popular tools for teaching language arts skills to children with developmental disabilities such as autism and other Pervasive Developmental Disorders.

Knowledge of Direct Instruction methods is mandatory for any applicant aspiring to become a Board Certified Behavior Analyst ( BCBA ).

The study, headed by Randall Ryder, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Education, also found that teachers felt the most highly scripted method, known as Direct Instruction ( DI ), should be used in limited situations, not as the primary method of teaching students to read.

) Direct Instruction is widely and successfully used with students from every population segment ( with regard to poverty, culture, and race ).

Today, many of the Bureau of Indian Affair's highest-performing schools use Direct Instruction materials.

These schools have shown strong achievement gains using Direct Instruction ( Rebar, 2007 ).

John Hattie's Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement ( 2009 ) summarizes the results of four meta-analyses that examined Direct Instruction.

Direct Instruction is recognized as one of two effective models of comprehensive school reform ( see the federal government's site on Comprehensive School Reform ) ( See http :// www. csrq. org / CSRQreportselementaryschoolreport. asp ) and in many cases, can be integrated into a tiered model system to address students will developing problems.

The findings from Project Follow Through, conducted in a variety of communities throughout the United States, conclude that Direct Instruction is the most effective model for teaching academic skills and for affective outcomes ( e. g., self-esteem of children ).

Currently, Direct Instruction is one of the few curriculums that have been scientifically validated to be effective for use in the Response to Intervention model, which has been proposed as an alternative method of diagnosing learning disabilities in schools.

A critical review of Randall Ryder's report of Direct Instruction reading in two Wisconsin school districts.

* Journal of Direct Instruction, 4 *( 2 ), 111-127.

Direct Instruction: Is It the Most Effective Science Teaching Strategy ?, NSTA Web News Digest, 15 December 2004.

Academic acceleration in first grade using the Direct Instruction model.

* National Institute for Direct Instruction

* Association for Direct Instruction

* Educational Resources web site: A Professional Staff Development Company Specializing in Direct Instruction Implementations

Direct proportionality of the rate to the incident intensity has also been assumed in obtaining the value in the last column for the fourth sample of series 2, where the light intensity was reduced by use of a screen.

The first Aldermaston March in 1958 went the other way ( from London to Aldermaston ) and was organised by the Direct Action Committee.

In Easter 1958, a 52-mile march from London to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston was organised by the Direct Action Committee, supported by CND after some initial reluctance.

The members of the task group were not able to come to an agreement choosing between two technology proposals, Multi-band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ( MB-OFDM ) and Direct Sequence UWB ( DS-UWB ), on the table backed by two different industry alliances and was withdrawn in January 2006.

Direct copying was supported between any two 8-bit registers and between any 8-bit register and an HL-addressed memory cell.

Direct control of various elements of the fleet was subordinated to officers commanding those elements, accountable to the Kaiser.

Direct Portuguese influence was limited.

When Jinnah called for Direct Action, on 16 August 1946, Gandhi was infuriated and visited the most riot prone areas to stop the massacres, personally.

Since it was first proposed as a part of Mars Direct, the Mars Habitat Unit has been adopted by NASA as a part of their Mars Design Reference Mission, which utilizes two Mars Habitat Units-one of which flies to Mars unmanned, providing a dedicated laboratory facility on Mars, together with the capacity to carry a larger rover vehicle.

Zubrin and Baker pitched Mars Direct at the Marshall Spaceflight Center, where reception was generally positive.

Since Mars Direct was initially conceived, it has undergone regular review and development by Zubrin himself, the Mars Society, NASA, Stanford University and others.

Mars Direct was featured on a Discovery Channel programs Mars: The Next Frontier in which issues were discussed surrounding NASA funding of the project, and on Mars Underground, where the plan is discussed more in-depth.

Since the Referendum on the Direct Election of the President of the French Republic, 1962, the President has been directly elected by universal suffrage ; he or she was previously elected by an electoral college.

He was the driving force behind Mars Direct — a proposal intended to produce significant reductions in the cost and complexity of such a mission.

From 1881 until 1962, Stow was served by Stow-on-the-Wold railway station which was on the Great Western Railway's Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway.

This means, as the U. S. Dollar accounted for 80 percent in the Thai basket of currencies, the Thai Baht was also depreciated further-making Thailand's export even more competitive and making the country more attractive to Foreign Direct Investment ( FDI ), especially from Japan whose national currency appreciated considerably since 1985.

Direct Action was suppressed, its circulation was at its peak of something over 12, 000.

Direct human-to-human transmission initially was believed to be caused only by occupational exposure, or conjunctive exposure to infected blood.

Direct heating of the hydrogen by gamma rays was considered impractical, due to the difficulty of compressing enough of it within an engine of reasonable size to absorb the gamma rays.

In the 1966 Direct Cinema film Chelsea Girls, Andy Warhol filmed various acquaintances with no direction given ; the Radio Times Guide to Film 2007 stated that the film was " to blame for reality television.

The same year he visited Rome and compelled Paul to write to Pepin asking him to concede all the Lombard Direct claims except that to Imola ; another letter of exactly opposite tenor was sent by the same messenger.

In Canada, the term " death stars " was used to describe U. S. Direct Broadcast Satellites capable of broadcasting signals into Canada that were not regulated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

The House of Valois () was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty, succeeding the House of Capet ( or " Direct Capetians ") as kings of France from 1328 to 1589.