To sum it up, the four most effective scaffolds in my experience have been visual supports, simplified texts, extended time, and teacher modeling. When used intentionally, these supports can make a ...

At the heart of all good teaching is the intent to help students grow and, ultimately, become independent learners. Scaffolding instruction—to support students through successive levels of ...

This technique gives multilingual students explicit instruction on how to effectively develop their ideas for each part of a ...

As an educator with 30 years of experience in North Dakota’s public schools, I’ve witnessed students enter my classroom with varying degrees of readiness. In an effort to create more equitable ...

As schools everywhere shift to the Common Core, teachers are now realizing that they must now be able to determine the both the factors within a given text where students will need scaffolding as well ...

Scaffolding refers to a process in which teachers model or demonstrate how to solve a problem, and then step back, offering support to students as needed. It has mainly three features: contingency, ...