"Explicit instruction, or explicit teaching, is a teacher-led, evidence-based instructional approach that advocates breaking learning down into smaller, manageable parts, providing clear, direct explanations, modeling of skills, and delivering opportunities for practice and feedback." It's what I've called 'instructivism' over the years, and is promoted most notably by people like Paul Kirschner and Daniel Willingham. Here's the objection to instructionism, in a nutshell: "When we speak of brains, we speak of that common to all students. When we speak of minds, however, we speak about what is unique to each student. The latter should not be sacrificed on the altar of the former." Ellerton's previous post is also a fun read: People who say thinking skills can't be taught have no idea what they are.
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