Sentences with phrase «knowledge as scaffolding»

Build your learners» knowledge as a scaffold.

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Launching the learning in your classroom from the prior knowledge of your students and using this as a framework for future lessons is not only a scaffolding technique — many would agree it's just plain good teaching.

The teacher's role is to scaffold knowledge and skills as the student progresses through the content.

Scaffolding may include the provision of advanced organizers such as outlines and rubrics, resources, templates, models and worked examples, concept maps, prompts to recall prior knowledge, etc..

An imaginative activity in French: pupils read the recipe for a good teacher (subject knowledge, sense of humour, etc) and then use this as scaffolding to create their own recipes for other things like a good party.

Your role is to encourage your students to develop thinking skills and to direct their thinking, which is not the same as providing them with the knowledge to solve the problem, but more to do with scaffolding their thinking.

Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey say that helping students develop immediate and lifelong learning skills is best achieved through guided instruction, which they define as «saying or doing the just - right thing to get the learner to do cognitive work» — in other words, gradually and successfully transferring knowledge and the responsibility for learning to students through scaffolds for learning.

We conceive of ECMs as exemplar lessons that strongly illustrate fundaments of wise practice pedagogy and that educatively scaffold to help teachers develop their professional teaching knowledge.

We designed ECMs to support the development of teachers» professional teaching knowledge as it related to a specific pedagogical approach called problem - based historical inquiry and its principles for social studies instruction, that learning should be purposeful, connected, active, and scaffolded (Saye & Brush, 2004).

Language learners may come to the classroom with less background knowledge in English, but they have just as much aptitude for learning language and content when teachers scaffold instruction for both.

Our ECMs were designed to support the development of teachers» professional teaching knowledge as it relates to a specific pedagogical approach, PBHI), and its four characteristics of effective social studies instruction: purposeful, connected, active, and scaffolded (Saye & Brush, 2004).

Our approach consists of modeling evaluation or data - related knowledge and skills, scaffolding clients as they begin to perform the activities, then monitoring and providing feedback and documentation to clients on their performance until they reach the desired level of competency.

«Specifically, we documented how the Mills Teacher Scholars Teacher Leadership Network meetings (a) offered safe thinking spaces that positioned teachers as intellectual professionals who could socially construct knowledge and learn together, (b) allowed teachers to surface and name the complexities and uncertainties inherent to teaching that would undoubtedly arise as they sought to facilitate learning communities at their school sites, and (c) provided guidance for teachers through a parallel process, that is, modeling for them and supporting them in experiencing firsthand what they would be responsible for enacting and scaffolding with their teaching colleagues.»

Consensus functions as a scaffolding allowing us to continue to build knowledge by addressing things that are actually unknown.

In addition to my knowledge of applicators, such as sprayers and brushes to apply paint, I also carried out various duties on construction sites (e.g., bricklaying, drywalling, erect scaffolding) during slow seasons.

Experience with complete home construction, as well as remodels and renovations... plumbing knowledge Hand and power tools Scaffolding construction Lifts up to 70 pounds Detail - oriented Safety

These 11 lessons scaffold seamlessly from the knowledge gained in the middle school curriculum, yet the high school curriculum can also stand on its own, as a comprehensive sexuality education curriculum for ninth or tenth graders.