Teachers can structure supports to guide English learners to speak and write using grade-level, discipline-specific language.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

“Differentiated instruction"—both the term and the idea—can carry a lot of baggage in teaching circles. This blog has carried many posts, including a video series my colleague Katie Hull and I ...

It was the late Jerome Bruner and his colleagues who first thought to invoke the field of (building) construction in creating an educational metaphor. They described the process of providing learners ...

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.