These are scaffolds that work well with young learners.
You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… As a pre-school teacher, it’s easy to doubt your young students´ verbal abilities in a second (or third, or fourth) language; however, it’s been proven time and again that the same skills and turns […]
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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. ‘The mind is not designed for thinking.’* These are probably not the words you were hoping to read as you look for ideas for your lessons. And yet, the experts insist that it’s true. As young as they are, our young students rely
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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Using information wheels in lessons is a wonderful way of giving our students the opportunity to learn through, among other learning styles, kinesthetic interaction. They’ll be pulling from past knowledge, using deductive reasoning, negotiating meaning, and learning new subject matter, all at the
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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Scaffolding videos is crucial. Many teachers use videos to introduce new material, but without scaffolding, but the dynamics is the same as giving a direct-teaching lesson: the students sit passively listening with little or no interaction. Many times, teachers think that an effective
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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. As teachers of language learners, we often struggle with the question of whether to use authentic*materials in our lessons, and this struggle begins in pre-school. The alternative is to use stories and materials that have been graded** (adapted, manipulated) to facilitate our young students in
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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind the scaffold… How do we reach our conclusions about the importance we put on different skills sets and what we focus on to develop in our lessons? In general, whether we are aware of it or not (and we need to
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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind the scaffold… The brain sparks and grows when we make mistakes – even if we are not aware of it – because it is a time of struggle: the brain is challenged, and this is the
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This scaffold is magic!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind the scaffold… ‘Intelligence is not necessarily hereditary. Education can transform a child’ asserts Karl Witte*, a pioneer in blended learning. We have the tools, he says, to help our students to change the course of their academic and then professional lives,
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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… One of the most common go-to words to explain scaffolding is ‘chunking’. Chunking is the strategy of breaking down material into digestible proportions in order to avoid cognitive overload. If you accept the studies (and there are a lot of
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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… Knowing the sequence of events in a story (in a book or in a video) is an important skill for young learners – in any language. In their first years of schooling, we need to specifically give our students the
Scaffolding by enriching the Sequencing dynamic (preschool/lower primary) Read More »