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, ...

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 ...

This technique gives multilingual students explicit instruction on how to effectively develop their ideas for each part of a ...

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, ...