Scaffolding

Scaffolding Scaffolding The film “Scaffolding: Self-Regulated Learning in the Primary Grades”, we learn of Lev Vygotsky and his beliefs about education. Vygotsky felt that techniques such as scaffolding and self-regulated learning were the most beneficial to the education of children. He also recognized that both parties, students and teachers, are responsible for learning. Jerome Bruner introduced scaffolding in 1970. It is a teaching strategy with methods to move a child from an assisted level of learning to and independent level of learning. Teachers can provide scaffolding in three ways through the use of mediators, language, and shared activity. Mediators are tools to facilitate a complex behavior or cue a mental process. They must be meaningful, positive, and standout. A learning plan can be one example of a mediator. Vygotsky felt that the most powerful human invention was language. Language can come in various forms. We communicate through public, private, inner, verbal, thought, and written speech. Without it, the learning process would be much more complex. Shared activity is another way in which teachers can provide a scaffolding system for their students. This can be done on a teacher-student level, or a peer-peer level. Shared activity scaffolding, learning, level, self-regulated, process, feel, through, teaching, teachers, students, strategy, must, method, language, activity, wheels, vygotsky, shared, set, removed, provide, positive, plans, own, methods, mediators, learn, independent, film, felt, education, complex, comfortable, children, child