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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

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