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Scaffolding New Content through Brain Writing

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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 […]

Scaffolding Norms and Consequences (Pre-School/lower primary)

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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of this scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… We’ve planned an incredibly dynamic lesson. We have techniques to lasso (quickly gather) our students into the circle-time area. We have calmed them down with one of our tried-and-true methods. Now what? Why do we still have to spend […]

Scaffolding Grammar through Critical Thinking

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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Language awareness is important for language learners at any age. This does not mean that we need to isolate grammar teaching, but rather intentionally incorporate and reinforce appropriate grammatical structures in content classes. As educators, we need to draw student attention to key […]

Scaffolding New Concepts with Puzzles

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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. One of the greatest challenges we have as pre-school teachers is to help students to avoid cognitive overload. We have an enormous quantity of information we want to present to them, but many times, we ask our young learners to assimilate a bulk […]