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What are scaffolds and how will they benefit your students?

How can you create activities that are based on competences, grounded in the best practices of student agency and different learning modalities, and still tied to the methodology of your school?

All this and more is defined, demonstrated, and diffused in this internationally renowned collection of activities, techniques and strategies. Templates, links, and examples are given for each scaffold to facilitate an easy transition and explanation in the use of these keys to fluid learning.

¿Qué son los andamiajes y cómo beneficionan a nuestros alumnos? ¿Cómo puedo crear actividades basadas en competencias y fundamentados en la metadologìa de mi centro?

Todo esto y mucho más se explica, demuestra y ofrece en esta colección de actividades.

Todas van acompañadas de una plantilla digital, además de recursos, vídeos y PPTs para aumentar las ventajas de utilizar estas técnicas

What is the difference between learning and acquiring a language? How can this difference affect your students?

The answers to these questions are explored in this first volume, and through data from the most trusted experts in the educational field, case studies and activities, you’ll see how knowing the distinction can change the paradigm of your planning and your students’ learning.

Even before you finish reading this first volume, you’ll be able to begin implementing activities that are geared toward the acquisition of language and so towards the structure of phenomenon-based learning that educators all over the world are striving to finesse.

How does the Growth Mindset set off sparks in Phenomenon-Based Learning projects? How do Mini-Lessons give a structure within which we can exponentiate learning in this methodology?

Both questions are answered in detail, with examples, links, resources and visuals that you can immediately begin applying and adapting to your lessons.

Even before you finish reading this second volume, you’ll be able to plan Mini-lessons that clarify key concepts of your projects and reframe your thinking about your students’ possibilities and successes

This volume delves into ways to engage students with the very first words of the projects you are about to begin – and questions you can formulate even if you’re still not ready to introduce a full-blown PhBL project.

Enquiry Questions are the doorways into intriguing your students to look a Little over the threshhold of the subject they are about to explore, to see it as a puzzle that they want to solve.

How do we support our students from thinking superficially to thinking deeply, unlike anything that technology can do?

from heuristics to deep, divergent, expansive, original, creative thinking.

All the tools you need are in this compact, bursting at the seams volume, with case studies, templates, rubrics, downloads, videos and much more.

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 higher level thinking, the growth mindset, instil an ethic of excellence, deep reflection on learning, and all through multi-cultural, interdisciplinary activities. We have the keys to turning competences into action and to creating collective efficacy in your school so you move ahead as a unified, enthusiastic team.