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 ...

Instructional scaffolding—the use of resources, structures, and verbal interaction to help students do challenging academic work—is known to be essential for effective English language reading ...

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, ...

Explicit, systematic instruction is also critical for students with dyslexia, ADHD and other learning disabilities, says one ...

The goal of scaffolding is to provide opportunities for accommodating students’ individual abilities and needs as they learn and grow. It is important to note that scaffolding is fundamental to all ...

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 ...

This study investigates the mechanisms of scaffolding in a synchronous network-based environment -the 'collaborative virtual workplace'. A theoretical ' multiactor' scaffolding model was formulated.