Is it scaffolding?<\/p>\n
This morning\u00a0I was thinking about the feedback I had received\u00a0from students on our recent inquiry unit. I found myself listing the things I wished I had done a little differently. For example: discuss more, give more time to work on their writing in class, pay more attention to what students are finding and help them link it back to their inquiry question, give more effective and timely feedback to help students connect their findings and to drive learning. These are things that looking back, I don’t understand why I didn’t do more of as we went through the labs. Part of the reality was that I was focused on finishing the unit before the December holiday and it was the first time I had done something like this. There was structure to the lessons, labs and work the students were doing, but I know I could have done a better job of scaffolding the unit so that when it came to producing the final product students felt more confident in their work.<\/p>\n
The focus of my action plan so far has been to create an authentic classroom, but I am wondering\u00a0if maybe it is really about how might we\u00a0provide thoughtful and effective scaffolding in order to support students engaging in authentic tasks.<\/p>\n
Focusing on scaffolding might be it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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