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scaffolding
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- English language learners and special education testing
- English language learners are often incorrectly labeled with learning disabilities because of inffective diagnostic tests. A more effective model of testing and instruction would be based upon the educational concepts of scaffolding instruction and the Zone of Proximal Development.
- Format: article
- By Mary Faith Mount-Cors.
- Modeling
- Modeling is an instructional strategy in which the teacher demonstrates a new concept or approach to learning and students learn by observing. Theory of modeling as an instructional strategy Research has shown that modeling is an effective instructional...
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Teaching existing online courses
- This document explains how to teach a copy of an online course that has already been developed.
- Format: article/help
- Learning Language Strategies Through Repeated Readings of Storybooks
- This lesson will guide and teach students how to process and produce language at higher levels through meaningful, redundant, contextually appropriate, and intrinsically rewarding center-based activities related to a storybook theme.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Elizabeth Winborne.
- The seventh century Shore Temple in Mahabalipuram, India
- This is the Shore Temple in Mahabalipuram, India, built in the seventh century. It is made from light tan stone. Much of the carving on the stones has deteriorated greatly. On the walls surrounding the temple are large, almost human-sized statues of kneeling...
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An instructional technique in which a teacher breaks complex tasks into smaller component tasks, models the task, and creates links to students’ existing knowledge. Scaffolding supports students in their learning until they are ready to pursue a task independently.
See also zone of proximal development.
Additional information
Lev Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory proposes that teachers provide supports for students to move beyond what they are capable of accomplishing on their own. This scaffolding occurs to take students through the zone of proximal development. The amount of scaffolding provided is reduced as students become more independent within a learning context.
