At the heart of all good teaching is the intent to help students grow and, ultimately, become independent learners. Scaffolding instruction—to support students through successive levels of ...

Scaffolding refers to a process in which teachers model or demonstrate how to solve a problem, and then step back, offering support to students as needed. It has mainly three features: contingency, ...

As an educator with 30 years of experience in North Dakota’s public schools, I’ve witnessed students enter my classroom with varying degrees of readiness. In an effort to create more equitable ...

Science Scope, Vol. 44, No. 3, Effective Classroom Strategies for All (JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021), pp. 37-43 (7 pages) Amendum, S.J., K. Conradi, and E. Hiebert. 2018. Does text complexity matter in the ...

Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 3, Writing and Reading Instruction (July/August/September 2018), pp. 367-373 (7 pages) Although much research exists on scaffolding in reading instruction, ...