Curriculum And Instruction That Are Scaffolded

If you want to be a great teacher, you need to scaffold learning for your students! Place work a bit out of reach for a learner, and then ensure that they reach and succeed at that new level. This is a higher quality of teaching! A lot of teachers think that they are scaffolding, simply by providing the help their students need at the time of the lesson... not true. In order to truly scaffold, you need to be thinking about the needs of each individual student, and what they need in order to challenge their learning. This is why scaffolding and differentiation go hand in hand.  By scaffolding, you are already thinking about differentiation, you just may not know it yet.  "If you are doing your job for every student, then every student will find you indispensable." Love that quote from our text book. I want all of my students to need me!