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 ...

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, ...

Sparked by the Common Core State Standards, teachers and literacy experts are arguing about the role of a time-honored pillar of English/language arts instruction: classroom activities designed to ...

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 ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How can you best differentiate instruction for English-language learners in a “mainstream” classroom? Part One ‘s responses came from Valentina Gonzalez, Jenny Vo, ...