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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… Language is the most powerful, most readily available tool we have to paint a portrait, landscape, still life and history of what we experience – realistic and abstract all at once – and one to […]

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Cultural differences extend far past language, greetings, gestures, dress and beliefs. The very space we create when we meet people, or the absence of that space, is indicative of where we come from and our understanding of the comfort level of those we

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Concept maps are tools for organising and representing knowledge.*  Timelines, a type of concept map, serve as a kind of template to help students to organize knowledge and structure information visually. They are one more tool we can utilise in our lessons to

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Scaffolding videos is crucial. Many professors use videos to introduce new material, but without scaffolding, the dynamics is the same as giving a direct-teaching lesson/lecture: the students sit passively listening with little or no interaction. Many times, we think an effective scaffold of

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Book lists are an important part of the structure of the school year. Making book lists available to university students is a way of outlining the trajectory of the course of studies for the year. This scaffold helps us to make this introduction

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. In honour of International Pi Day (March 14th, belatedly) let’s scaffold the number Pi!!! Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, but let’s go beyond the literal. Let’s delve into the essence of the equation and explore Pi as

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