Instead of starting with whole group instruction and then using small groups to intervene, teachers can use a targeted ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Personalization is permeating our society at large, and it’s no wonder that this need has penetrated education. In fact, one might argue that personalization is of the highest need in education, where ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Invention and Productive Failure activities ask students to generate methods that capture the important properties of some given data (e.g., ...