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Based on a lot of research, as well as first hand experience of writing and teaching each type of lesson, I do not feel that one type of lesson is better than another. Direct instruction is great when there is specific information that needs to be taught and that, as a teacher, you have to make sure you teach to your students. Certain information cannot be taught through exploration and facts need to be given straight forward through direct instruction. Inquiry based instruction is great to really ensure that students understand the content by giving them a chance to explore and be hands on. These experiences will be better kept in the students brain and will be there to refer back to when trying to remember the content. I feel that using both types of instruction in your classroom will be the most effective because you will be able to suit all types of student learning in the classroom and really give students the chance to learn to their best ability.

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Although direct instruction has been recently seen as a poor way of teaching, it has been the way of teaching for many years and has worked well enough thus far. There has been a lot of success in direct instruction and there will always be new strategies and ways of teaching, however direct instruction has been around the longest and always is the type of instruction teachers fall back on.

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Direct instruction is the more traditional type of instruction in the classroom, and the way that most of us remember being taught in elementary school. However, not all students benefit from learning this way. While teachers provide students with all of the necessary information that they need to know, students are required to sit and listen and then study and memorize for tests. This does not ensure that they actually understand what they are learning.

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The Carnegie Mellon University did a study on 3rd and 4th grade students. At first, 75% of students who learned through direct instruction earned mastery level, while only 25% earned mastery level who learned through discovery. Dean, a graduate student, used the same research design to do another test. This occurred over a 17 week period and at first he found that students who received direct instruction performed better than those who received discovery. However, after the initial assessment, he found that no students who received direct instruction earned mastery level and 10% of students who received discovery instruction earned mastery level. The debate results are that the long term results of discovery learning are better.

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This semester, myself along with many other future teachers were introduced to a new type of lesson plan and a new type of teaching. 6-step lessons and direct instruction is what we were used to, but I wanted to get their opinions on which lesson type they felt was more effective. I interviewed my cohort, asking if they felt direct instruction or inquiry based instruction was more effective or if they believe a combination of both is most effective. These are the results.

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http://www.worksheetlibrary.com/teachingtips/directinstruction.html

http://tsaponar.blogspot.com/2013/12/apps-for-inquiry-based-learning.html

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/765569782/Discovery-learning-a-major-national-trend-in-education.html

http://inspiredteaching.org/wp-content/uploads/impact-research-briefs-inquiry-based-teaching.pdf

https://study.com/academy/lesson/direct-instruction-teaching-method-definition-examples-strategies.html

http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/methods/models/direct/

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Direct instruction follows a 6-step lesson plan. The sections of the 6-step lesson plan include focus and review, statement of objective, teacher input, guided practice, independent practice, and closure. To summarize the whole lesson, the teacher will elect prior knowledge, teach the content, do an activity as a class, give students an activity to do independently, and then wrap up the lesson by asking questions for understanding.

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The two types of classroom instruction are direct instruction and inquiry based instruction. Direct instruction is where the teacher is doing all the teaching. Inquiry based instruction is when the students have the opportunity to teach themselves in a way.

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How effective is inquiry based instruction in the classroom versus direct instruction? 

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How effective is inquiry based instruction in the classroom versus direct instruction? 

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Inquiry based instruction follows a 5E lesson plan. The 5E's include engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate. The steps are similar to those of a 6-step lesson beside for the fact that teachers give students the opportunity to teach themselves through exploration and then further elaborates, rather than throwing information at students to remember and expect them to know.

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I think the strongest evidence that inquiry learning is effective is that “Inquiry based curriculum can increase student achievement and narrow the gap between high and low achieving students.” The article, INSPIRED ISSUE BRIEF: INQUIRY-BASED TEACHING, talks about two instances in which this was supported. There were eight middle school studied, in which some teachers went through inquiry workshops. The results show that the students who had teachers that went through the training performed better than students whose teachers did not go through the training. There is also reports of students who received inquiry based instruction being more interested in the subject they were learning.

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Discovery learning is similar to inquiry learning because it gives students the opportunity to explore the topic through discussion, debate, and reflection. An example given states that when giving students a math problem, instead of showing students how to solve it right away, you should have them try to come up with possible solutions to solve it.