"Scaffolding instruction" refers to the teaching method of providing support and guidance to students as they learn new concepts or skills. Just like a scaffolding structure supports workers while they construct a building, teachers provide step-by-step guidance and helpful resources to help students understand and master new material. It involves breaking down complex tasks into smaller, more manageable parts, gradually removing support as students gain independence and confidence in their learning.
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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.
They
provide scaffolded instruction in research - tested strategies (predicting, thinking aloud, attending to text structure, constructing visual representations, generating questions and summarizing).
Very often, especially for low achieving students, feedback may come in the form
of scaffolded instruction with the intent of guiding the student to an improved understanding of the necessary skills and / or concepts.
Many effective efforts to address the learning needs of English learners, such as the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (Echevarria, Vogt, & Short, 2007) and Quality Teachers for English language learners (Walqui, 2008), work by helping content - area
teachers scaffold their instruction by paying explicit attention to language within content - area classes.
Neumann and Neumann's literature review found, in addition to independent access, pre-school educators are using tablets for whole class and group work,
including scaffolded instruction, through apps such as iWrite, Doodle Buddy and Drawing Pad.
Recent EAC activities in the Pacific include capacity - building training to leadership teams from Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; work on an Office of Civil Rights compliance review of the Hawai'i Department of Education; and workshops on the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) model, which
helps scaffold instruction for English language learners.
The
new Scaffolding Instruction for English Language Learners Resource Guides for ELA and Mathematics provide guidance to educators on how to take the curriculum materials on EngageNY and provide additional scaffolds for ELL students according to their level of English language proficiency.
Leveled text passages and
scaffolded instruction ensure concepts and skills are accessible while remediation and acceleration opportunities adapt the instructional sequence.
SRA FLEX Literacy ™ provides individualized, web - based instruction within The Digital Experience that
utilizes scaffolded instruction with embedded practice, assessment, remediation, and review, to meet each student at his / her level.
Goalbook is designed to empower special educators by supporting their critical work in designing personalized learning goals and
scaffolding instruction so that all students can reach their full potential.»
Drafting Board is a free, interactive,
scaffolding instruction tool in iCivics that explores civics content more deeply, advances content - based literacy and critical thinking, and engages students in deeper learning.
As teachers
provide scaffolded instruction to meet students» needs, counselors must also provide scaffolded services to ensure that all students receive the support to become college - ready.
Students apply skill as teacher scaffolds instruction
The power of a Knowledge Cluster allows parents to
scaffold instruction by identifying gaps in students» mathematical backgrounds that frustrate student success in a content area.
The students» successes were a direct result of teacher / artist collaboration, student empowerment, and
scaffolded instruction.
Raise your underserved students» expectations by raising your own, and create a series of reachable, data - based goals,
scaffolding your instruction and mitigating their fear of failure.
What supports are available to help teachers understand how to
scaffold instruction using complex text?
«One of the things that we see with
this scaffolded instruction is that students become anxious,» observes Lombardi.
University Park Campus School uses low - stakes writing to
scaffold instruction, develop student voice, and foster critical thinkers.
Instead,
scaffold instruction (PDF) and check to see that you are challenging students appropriately with Hess» Cognitive Rigor Matrix.
Teachers leave with concrete steps on how to
scaffold instruction to meet their students» needs.
Scaffolding Instruction) provides a very effective instructional foundation for concepts / skills students are initially learning or for which they need additional instruction.
Scaffolding instruction after you have explicitly modeled the concept / skill at least three times provides students the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned while receiving immediate feedback from the teacher (See the teacher instruction strategy, Scaffolding Instruction).
Use Alphabet Blocks as an instructional tool to
scaffold instruction.
Scaffolding Instruction for English Language Learners: Resource Guides for English Language Arts and Mathematics
Scaffolded instruction includes explicit explanation and modeling of a strategy, discussion of why and when it is useful, and coaching in how to apply it to novel texts.
Our new 6 +1 Trait Writing institute addresses one of the greatest challenges teachers face today: how to
scaffold instruction for diverse learners — including English language learners, students with special needs and gifted and talented students — so that all students in your classroom become stronger, more confident writers.
The program operates on the principles of spiraling and
scaffolding instruction.
How do
you scaffold instruction for diverse learners — including English learners — so that all students in your classroom become stronger, more confident writers?
Describe how PTP teachers achieved cultural congruence by
scaffolding instruction, interactions, and learning activities to their students» backgrounds.