Today’s post kicks off a series on scaffolding instruction for students. This first column in the series focuses on scaffolds for English learners. Irina McGrath, born and raised in St. Petersburg, ...

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 ...

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 ...

As schools everywhere shift to the Common Core, teachers are now realizing that they must now be able to determine the both the factors within a given text where students will need scaffolding as well ...

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, ...

It’s one of the biggest challenges facing educators today: K–12 students who missed lengthy stretches of school because of the pandemic are still expected to meet the benchmarks of their grade level.