What is systematic instruction?
Systematic instruction is a teaching strategy that sequences the skills students need to learn into a logical progression and breaks each skill into manageable steps.
It’s closely related to direct instruction (and sometimes used synonymously) because it lays the foundation for directly explaining and demonstrating each of the steps that an academic task entails.
For example, a systematic approach for teaching students how to make a presentation would involve dividing the process into individual steps:
- Pick a main topic.
- Choose subtopics.
- Decide how many slides you need for each subtopic.
- Choose a focus for each slide.
- Add headings and bullet points.
The challenge of systematic instruction is that individual steps aren’t always obvious to experts. Ask Quillbot’s AI Chat to help you make your lessons or training materials more beginner-friendly.
