American educator (1931-2019) who engineered Direct Instruction, a rigorously scripted, explicit teaching method built from carefully sequenced examples. Working with psychologist Carl Bereiter, he began the work as a research associate at the University of Illinois in 1964; the formal DISTAR model was developed with Wesley C. Becker and first implemented at the University of Illinois in the mid-1960s, then carried forward at the University of Oregon from 1970, where Engelmann became a professor of education.
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BirthplaceChicago, Illinois, U.S. 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionCo-developed Direct Instruction (DI), moving a lesson from a teacher-modeled example through guided to independent practice in carefully sequenced steps; in the federal Project Follow Through study, his DISTAR programs were the only approach tested with significantly positive outcomes across every measure. 1 Notable WorkThe Theory of Instruction (with Douglas Carnine), the theoretical statement of Direct Instruction 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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DISTAR was a specific direct instruction model developed by Siegfried Engelmann and Wesley C. Becker.
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Siegfried Engelmann was born November 26, 1931, in Chicago, Illinois.
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On February 15, 2019, at the age of 87, Engelmann died of heart failure at his home in Eugene.
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Siegfried "Zig" Engelmann
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The DISTAR materials demonstrated the highest gains in the study.
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In a book called The Theory of Instruction, Engelmann and Douglas Carnine summarized the theoretical basis of the Direct Instruction approach.
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