Social and Emotional Learning: Making a Case in a No Child Left Behind (NCLB) World Reflection

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So, empathy can be taught through direct instruction.  It leads me to wonder is there anything that cannot be taught through direct instruction?  In order to answer this question, I think I need to do a little bit of research on direct instruction.  In the special education degree that I am working on, we continue to hear about direct instruction, but only through osmosis.  They teach us about direct instruction thinking we already know a lot about it.  Which would be ideal for us to do our own research, or for me to do my own research on direct instruction.

So, that is what the next section is going to be about, with a few random articles from Edutopia and other sites that stick out to me, as well as some movies that have nothing to do with direct instruction.  But I need to gain a better understanding of direct instruction.