When I first started using Newsela in my classroom, I would assign articles to my students and have them work independently or in pairs to read and answer the four question quiz. I learned this approach did not provide a sufficient amount of support for most of my students. Like many of ...
“Every time kids learn something new, they are causing changes in their brains.” We reward them for it. Dopamine release. They get excited. They want to do it again. Felt good—and they did it on their own. Use verbal rewards. “You got everything in your backpack and I...
Scaffolding: Providing support and guidance to learners as they progress through their learning journey. Reflective Practice: Taking time to think critically about what has been learned and how it can be applied in new situations. Diversity: Encouraging and valuing the contribution of individuals with...
The first paper is “Scaffolding to Support Liberal Arts Students Learning to Program on Photographs” (submitted version of paper here). We use this unit in this course:COMPFOR 121: Computing for Creative Expression. Step 1:The teaspoon language is Pixel Equations which I blogged abouthere. ...
During the early stages of students’ learning about skillful discussion, a teacher may need to: request that a student offer evidence to support a statement if a classmate does not; invite a student who has not been engaged to pose a question or make a comment; ...
In order to use ZPD and scaffolding techniques successfully,it's critical to know your students' current level of knowledge.Without this information, you won't be able to teach them in their ZPD or provide effective scaffolding support.
A curriculum’s scaffolding (structure) has been acknowledged as a powerful motivator. The participants were particularly impressed by the clearly defined educational objectives and clearly communicated, interspersed short-term targets (Table 3: interview one, transcript position 31). Although the students...
The project scaffolding provides three tests, encoded in the “app.component.spec.ts” file, which tests the corresponding “app.component.ts” code. As a general rule, each component in the Angular application should have a corresponding “.spec.ts” file to hold all the tests....
(2014) remarked on how the framework was taken up in ways that did not fully attend to the politics of belonging. She argues that educators rarely focused on the development of a sociopolitical consciousness, including scaffolding students’ critical analysis of structural inequities that ...
Scaffolding instruction makes teaching and learning English more pleasant. Learn how to scaffold a lesson using chunking, modeling, guided practice, and building upon what students already know. Related to this Question How do you teach the vocabulary 'I've passed my exams and I'm on cloud nine...