Scaffolding Children's Learning
Summary
TLDRThis module introduces scaffolding in children's learning, emphasizing its role in providing tailored support to help children succeed. Scaffolding is part of the teaching practices essential for school readiness, as outlined by the National Center on Quality Teaching and Learning's framework. The video explores three methods for effective scaffolding: offering hints, providing a range of possible answers, and encouraging the use of additional resources like books or visual aids. Teachers are encouraged to carefully observe students and offer individualized support to foster ongoing learning. The module also offers helpful resources to implement these strategies.
Takeaways
- đ The purpose of scaffolding is to provide children with the right level of support to enhance their learning success.
- đ Scaffolding is a key part of the National Center on Quality Teaching and Learning's House Framework, which focuses on critical teaching practices for school readiness.
- đ Research shows that classroom interactions are crucial for children's social and academic development.
- đ€ Teachers scaffold learning by providing varying levels of support and feedback based on individual needs.
- 𧩠One method of scaffolding is providing hints, which offer just enough extra information for children to arrive at a correct response or action.
- đ Another scaffolding method is offering a range of possible answers when a child is struggling to find the correct response.
- đ Teachers can encourage children to use additional resources like books, visual aids, or other children to help with learning concepts.
- đ Effective scaffolding involves careful observation and adjusting support based on the specific needs of each child.
- đĄ Scaffolding can be applied throughout the school day in various activities to teach children new knowledge and skills.
- đ Teachers should explore additional resources, tips, and tools to effectively apply scaffolding strategies in their classrooms.
Q & A
What is the main purpose of scaffolding in children's learning?
-The main purpose of scaffolding is to provide children with the right level of support so they can be more successful than they would be without assistance.
How does scaffolding fit into the National Center on Quality Teaching and Learning's house framework?
-Scaffolding fits into the foundation of the house framework, which is a way to think about critical teaching practices that support school readiness for all children.
Why are interactions in the classroom important according to the video?
-Interactions are important because they are critical classroom processes that support children's social and academic development.
What are instructional interactions, and how do they relate to scaffolding?
-Instructional interactions are specific methods teachers use to help children learn. Scaffolding is one such method where teachers provide different levels of support and feedback based on individual needs.
What is one way that teachers can scaffold children's learning?
-One way to scaffold is by providing hints, which offer just a little more information to help the child arrive at a more accurate response or action.
What is another method teachers can use to scaffold learning besides providing hints?
-Teachers can offer a range of possible answers when a child is struggling, giving two or three options from which the child can choose.
How can teachers use additional resources to scaffold children's learning?
-Teachers can encourage children to use resources like books, visual reminders, or other children to help them understand concepts better.
Can you provide an example of using additional resources in scaffolding?
-Yes, if a teacher does not have a picture of a dolphin, they might suggest finding one in a book or using another childâs knowledge as a resource.
What should teachers be mindful of when using scaffolding techniques?
-Teachers should be careful observers and provide individualized support tailored to each child's needs to keep them progressing in their learning.
What are the three main methods of scaffolding described in the video?
-The three main methods are providing hints, offering a range of possible answers, and suggesting the use of additional resources.
Outlines
đ§ Introduction to Scaffolding Children's Learning
This paragraph introduces the concept of scaffolding in children's learning. It explains that the main goal of scaffolding is to provide children with the right level of support to enhance their success beyond what they could achieve independently. The concept is integrated within the national framework for quality teaching, which emphasizes the importance of classroom interactions in promoting children's social and academic development.
đ Scaffolding in the House Framework
This section connects scaffolding to the national Center on Quality Teaching and Learningâs house framework. The house framework highlights teaching practices essential for children's school readiness, and scaffolding is presented as a key method to support children's learning. Research underscores that interactions in the classroom, including instructional support like scaffolding, are vital for children's academic and social growth.
đ ïž Methods of Scaffolding
Here, three methods of scaffolding are introduced. Teachers can provide support through hints, offering choices, and encouraging the use of additional resources. Each of these techniques is designed to meet the childâs unique needs by giving them just the right level of support to succeed.
đĄ Providing Hints to Support Learning
This part discusses using hints as a scaffolding method. Hints involve giving small pieces of additional information to guide children toward the correct answer or action. Hints can be verbal, visual, or through gestures, helping children progress in their learning process by providing subtle cues without giving the full answer.
đ Offering Multiple Choices to Assist Decision Making
Another scaffolding technique is offering children a range of possible answers when they are struggling. By giving children two or three options, the teacher helps the child narrow down the correct response, which supports their learning without overwhelming them with too many choices.
đ Encouraging the Use of Additional Resources
This section focuses on encouraging children to use additional resources such as books, visual reminders, or peers to help them understand new concepts. Teachers guide children to seek out information from various sources, promoting independent learning and exploration.
đŻ Opportunities for Scaffolding Throughout the Day
The paragraph emphasizes that scaffolding can be applied throughout the school day in various activities and contexts. Teachers need to observe closely to provide the right support at the right moment to ensure children continue learning effectively.
đ Summary of Scaffolding Techniques
This final section recaps the main scaffolding strategies teachers can use: providing hints, offering a range of answers, and suggesting additional resources. It also encourages teachers to review the accompanying tips and tools for practical application of scaffolding techniques.
đ Conclusion and Resources
The conclusion thanks the audience for listening and encourages them to explore the tips, tools, and additional resources provided to support their implementation of scaffolding in the classroom.
Mindmap
Keywords
đĄScaffolding
đĄSupport
đĄHints
đĄFeedback
đĄSchool Readiness
đĄInstructional Interactions
đĄClassroom Processes
đĄResources
đĄTailored Support
đĄRange of Possible Answers
Highlights
Scaffolding provides children with the right level of support to help them succeed more than they would without assistance.
Scaffolding fits into the foundation of the national Center on Quality Teaching and Learning's 'house framework,' which is important for school readiness.
Research shows that classroom interactions are essential for children's social and academic development.
Scaffolding is a critical instructional interaction that helps children learn through differentiated support.
Teachers scaffold learning by providing varying levels of support and feedback to meet individual needs.
One method of scaffolding is providing hints, which offer just enough information to guide the child toward the correct response.
Hints can be verbal, visual (like pictures), or even gestures to assist children in learning.
Another scaffolding method is offering a range of possible answers to help a struggling child choose the correct one.
Teachers can encourage children to use additional resources, such as books, visual aids, or peers, to understand new concepts.
Teachers should carefully observe each child and offer appropriate support tailored to their needs.
Scaffolding can be used throughout the school day in various activities and subjects.
The goal of scaffolding is to help children build new knowledge and skills progressively.
Teachers can suggest additional resources like classroom materials or other children to aid in the learning process.
This method allows teachers to help children independently find solutions and build confidence.
The presentation emphasizes the importance of hints, offering choices, and utilizing external resources in scaffolding.
Transcripts
welcome to the short module on
scaffolding Children's Learning the main
purpose of scaffolding is to provide
children with the right level of support
so that they can be more successful than
they would be without your help
scaffolding Children's Learning fits
into the foundation of the national
Center on quality teaching and learnings
house framework the house is a way to
help us think about the teaching
practices that are critical to School
Readiness for all children research
shows that interactions are the
classroom processes that are important
for children's social and academic
development there are a number of more
specific instructional interactions that
we can identify and use to help children
learn scaffolding is one of those
teachers scaffold Children's Learning
when they provide different levels of
support and feedback to meet individual
needs there are at least three methods
that teachers can use to provide
children with just the right amount of
support and
feedback one way to scaffold or support
Children's Learning is to provide hints
a hint provides just a little little
more information to help the child
arrive at a more accurate response or
action a hint can be given verbally or
it could be a picture or a gesture one
idea would be to use the picture I see
you have the tail of the
airplane what else comes next I see two
Wings all right let's
see another way to scaffold Children's
Learning is to offer a range of possible
answers when the teacher sees that a
child is struggling to come up with an
answer or response the teacher gives two
or three possibilities from which the
child can choose is that plastic or
paper plastic so can you put it in the
plastic bin very nice here's another way
to scaffold Children's Learning the
teacher can encourage the child to use
additional resources to help the child
understand the concept or idea we
haven't done dolphin yet I don't think I
have a picture of a dolphin where could
we find a picture Ste of
it there is a Ste where can we get a
picture picture of a dolphin was there a
dolphin in the seahorse book hey I see a
book over here this book says about fish
do you think it has a dolphin in it
additional resources include books
visual reminders in the classroom or
other children there are lots of
opportunities for teachers to use
scaffolding throughout the school day
and in a variety of activities
scaffolding can be used to help children
learn all sorts of new Knowledge and
Skills teachers need to be careful
observers and provide the support that
the individual child needs to keep on
learning this presentation highlighted
the ways that teachers can use
Scaffolding in their interactions with
children teachers can use hints give a
range of possible answers or suggest
additional
resources please see our tips and tools
and helpful resources that accompany
this presentation thank you for
listening
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