There is a large array of evidence-based methodologies and programs under the ‘broad church’ of explicit pedagogy. They are derivatives of the original Direct Instruction (named Direct Instructional System for Teaching and Remediation (DISTAR)) developed by Siegfried Engelmann and colleagues in 1964.
The pedagogical breakthroughs made by Engelmann et al. were collated into a formal taxonomy by Professor Barak Rosenshine in a milestone article in 1976.
This then spawned derivatives such as Anita Archer’s Explicit Instruction (USA), John Hollingworth and Sylvia Ybarra’s Explicit Direct Instruction (USA), Kevin Wheldall’s MULTILIT (Australia) and John Fleming’s Explicit Instruction (Australia).
Good to Great Schools Australia uses programs based on this evidence. Programs are based on explicit instruction that has a proven evidence base.