Methods for Scaffolding Learning

Methods for Scaffolding Learning

During my first few years of teaching, I made the classic mistake of adopting a “covering content” mentality. I planned my classes in terms of the topics I needed to cover and how I would motor through them. This is a sending-side perspective that views teaching as a transfer of data between the brains of the teacher and student.But minds do not receive data like databases. They instead build knowledge on the periphery of what is already known, …