I found Frey and Fisher's article, Identifying Instructional Moves During Guided Learning, incredibly interesting to read. What stuck out the most to me was the idea that scaffolding allows the teacher to guide their students along, while allowing the students to do their own thinking. I have been in a couple of classrooms where the teacher did not always take the time to guide their students by probing with multiple types of questions, or by providing cues, etc. Instead (for time's sake) they would go straight to the direct explanation. I think it is vital to use scaffolds in order to promote developmental thinking and understanding for students. If we just give them all the answers, how will they learn to think for themselves??
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