Starting in 2009, Zigsite is going to have an emphasis on training through videos. The first will be a series of 13 video sessions on teaching English pronunciation especially to non-English speakers. It will be followed by a series of training videos on teaching our new program, Direct Instruction Spoken English.

The longer printed works on Zigsite include, Rubric for Identifying Authentic DI Programs, Low Performers' Manual,and the log of the first formal study I did in education—Comparative Preschool Study: High and Low SES Preschoolers Learning Advanced Cognitive Skills. These are constructive. Most of the other works are constructive only in the sense that they help clarify why education has gone basically nowhere in the past 40 years. Only now are educators starting to "invent" some of the stuff we used back in the 60s.

The prologues frame the "historical context" for the article or tome, and why I think it's important. Although some of the articles critique works you may not have read, I think that I express the oppositions' positions at least fairly enough that you don't have to read these works (unless you have masochistic tendencies).

For all pieces on the website, I hold the copyright. Feel free to download them, and use them. If you have a special use, or want to publish it, check it out with me.

Your comments are welcome.

Contact Zig at zig@nifdi.org
(541) 485-1947

LINKS TO RELATED SITES

• Biographical Sketch
• NIFDI (National Institute for Direct Instruction)
• University of Oregon
• ADI Association for Direct Instruction
• FUNNIX Reading Programs
  
  

LINKS TO RELATED ARTICLES

• Ed Week: A Direct Challenge—Baltimore
• NIFDI Papers: Achieving a Full-School,
  Full-Immersion Implementation
  of Direct Instruction