Alana Richards

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Teachers in Higher Education typically focus less on language development and more on content learning – to the detriment of our students. We need to remember to intentionally address grammar and academic language in our lessons, in different ways, to help our students

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Educators often struggle with the question of whether to use authentic materials or edited text so that they become more student-friendly. Authenticliterature refers to narrative and expository texts that are written in the original, natural language of the authors. These texts are not written with a

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Forget food for the moment! Let’s get to the core of the holiday: assessing the year. Give your students the opportunity to develop their emotional intelligence and move forward proactively. This scaffold can be introduced any time, but it’s especially appropriate at Thanksgiving.

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here A popular form of scaffolding is brainstorming or mindmapping, which is a form of assessing students’ past knowledge of any given topic. However, it is far from ideal as it tests students in a public manner, potentially embarrassing them. Further, only one student