Scaffolding
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Learning skills
Content
L2
L1
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Sessions expected outcomes
You will be able to:
• define scaffolding
• think about your thinking type
• think about cognitive load
• work with scaffolding
• select ideas for scaffolding
• develop scaffolds
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What is scaffolding in the
context of education?
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Definition of scaffolding
Scaffolding includes support from people
or materials that help students to reach
beyond what they could do on their own.
Scaffolding always supports critical
thinking. It does not make learning easier,
but helps learners to stay in the zone of
their proximal development.
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Zone of proximal development
Lev Vygotsky
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What is currently beyond
the reach of the student even with help
What a student can do with help
What a student can do with help
ZPD
What a student can do
on his or her own
ZPD
with language scaffolding
with content scaffolding
What is currently beyond
the reach of the student even with help
Source: Peeter Mehisto
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Scaffolding features
• Temporary but ubiquitous
• Keeps students within their zone of
proximal development
• Gradually withdraws
• Helps students develop narratives about
facts, ideas and concepts
• Aimed at developing universal
competences
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Your thinking and its effect
on students’ learning
Stable
Against
thinking
Flexible
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What about you?
Answer the following five questions.
You are not obliged to share your
answers.
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Carol Dweck (2012) Mindset: How you can fulfil your
potential. Constable & Robinson Limited.
What do you feel and what do you do,
when:
• You come across a problem or an obstacle
• You come across difficulties
• You are criticized
• You are asked to make more effort
• You see that someone else succeeding?
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7
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7 generations (Жеті ата)
7 wonders of theGreat
world…
Pyramid of Giza, Egypt
2,600 BC
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Iraq
Date unknown
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Turkey
6th century BC
Statue of Zeus, Greece
5th century BC
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Turkey
4th century BC
Colossus of Rhodes, Rhodes
4th
-
century BC
Lighthouse of Alexandria, Ehypt
3rd century BC
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/history/ancie
nt-wonders/
7 celestial spheres
7 seas
Arctic ocean
Northern part of the Atlantic
ocean
Southern part of the Atlantic ocean
Indian ocean
Northern part of the Pacific ocean
Southern part of the Pacific ocean
Southern ocean
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/se
venseas.html
7 deadly sins
Envy
Gluttony
Greed
Lust
Pride
Sloth
Wrath
7 virtues
Humility
Kindness
Patience
Diligence
Charity
Temperance
Chastity
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Supermarket of ideas
Look at the ideas on the wall.
• Find 5 you like
• Explain how you could use one of them