This has been a rather long response to the question. A quicker response might have been to say that teachers know a lot about scaffolding that they should not forget as they implement the Common Core State Standards. The difference between then and now is when the scaffolds are deployed. Historically, we have used front-end scaffolds, meaning that the support was provided before students read the text. This was often done in the form of frontloading, pre-teaching vocabulary, and explaining things. We realize that these front-end scaffolds have removed the need for many students to read, so now were focused on distributed scaffolds and back-end scaffolds. In other words, rather than provide a lot of scaffolding upfront, we use those scaffolds between each reading of the text and then determine where understanding has broken down.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:49:09 +0000
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