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Entries from May 23rd, 2009

Scaffold for a squirrel

May 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Content- Cross Discipline

“Scaffolding is an instructional technique whereby the teacher models the desired learning strategy or task, then gradually shifts responsibility to the students” (from North Central Regional Education Laboratory).  But is scaffolding is not only visible in the classroom.   Take a look at this squirrel video (sent to me from Annabelle Boehm).  Learning is sometimes hard [...]

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