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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 […]

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

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

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 organise knowledge and structure information visually. They are one more tool we can pass on to

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. The International Thank You Day – celebrated by many on January 11th, others on June 11th – is a wonderful opportunity to help our students to focus on gratitude. Including gratitude in the educational environments is proven to improve relationships both in and

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Winter is the time of celebrations of light and a wonderful opportunity to teach our young students about these celebrations all over the world. Through comic strips, this scaffold will help students to recognise  the multi-cultural holidays historically created to help vanquish the

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

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Make learning visible by challenging students to find the distinctions between the images in two montages. Studies show that giving pre-schoolers the opportunity to learn how to discern what differs is just as important as them learning what is similar when meeting new phenomena. We can help

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Watch video of a quick overview of 6 Lassoing and 6 Calming Down Techniques here. Scaffoldingmagic.com is your entryway into DYNAMIC bilingual learning methodologies, such as Phenomenon-Based Learning, CLIL, EMI, and ESL. You’ll find ways to implement critical thinking tools (DOK) to promote