children love to work with each other so buddies is a very common technique that teachers use Maggie ran home with her Fair hair flying and her dog springing along beside her if they use it to have a weaker student working with a more advanced student that serves one purpose and that is to help deliver the information in a kid-friendly voice to usually to the weaker student when teach have students working in like level buddies they're often giving them things that may extend their thinking too bad said Miss Swan Magie continue and they really get into interesting conversations when they're doing reading buddy because they bounce ideas off of each other and it helps them to actually read the text because some decoding skills that you don't have your buddy may have and they don't mind jumping in as long as it's just two people because there's no Stigma attached to your reading buddy saying the word is difficult mhm another scaffolding technique is graphic organizers okay do you guys need a graphic organizer here some people really need to see the information organized in a visual way in order to absorb it and get it I start teaching graphic organizers at the beginning of sixth grade and usually by this time seventh grade they have five to eight that they understand how to use and know what they are and by the end of the year we'll probably add a couple more and we talk about how they can be used in different classes usually I keep a set in the classroom like the ones I have over my board and they're free to go and pull a copy to use very often once they understand the concept they don't need one that I've provided they just make their own but they do often start with that students often identify the for scaffolding students are often the ones that say I don't understand I'm not confident I'm not sure think that's a good signal that a scaffold old technique might be appropriate one of the higher level students had many things written down but she hadn't put them into categories yet so you can categorize those do you want to use I gave her graphic organizer so that she could simplify that process and then give examples of each okay Miss swamp gives a ton of homework and Miss James WR it for me Charlotte gives a small pack in reading today they were doing Vin diagrams and that's just a graphic organizer that you would use when you want to compare and contrast two things and they compareed themselves to their main characters in their story it was easy for them then to look at what I wrote on the board and to start bringing that into their then diagram well Julian is mean to his brother I'm not mean to my brother Julian tells his parents lies I don't usually lie and then we try to think of similarities we took it apart piece by piece and then built it back up together the reason I wanted to start with one that was kind of hard was to let you stretch your brains and see that even if you first start reading through your book and you say I have nothing in common with this character you probably do you just have to think about it one of the scaffolding techniques that teachers can use is a time management Aid Journey some students really don't understand that what's going to be do on Friday needs to be broken up into these manageable pieces now we need to get a timeline to finish this project some of you are nearly through and some of you aren't nearly through so let's get our agenda books out we are getting ready to wrap up a project that we've been working on for about a week and children are at all different stages of this project most of our projects are fairly longterm and have many many different tasks in them so the children have to learn to figure out how to get things done in a timely manner and break it down into small pieces so it doesn't seem so massive to them so we needed to have some sort of way to figure out how we could all get it done by Friday see yours did you get a plan for this week they listed all the different aspects of the project all the tasks they had to do some of the children who have learning disabilities or who have problems with their time management it's much simpler for them if they have a form to fill out that they can look at that's real clear to them about which things to do on which days and other children are able to figure out what they want to do on which days and manage their own task development that way one good technique in scaffolding is to preview the questions to prepare for the coming lesson for example all right that's one thing I want you to think about other thing I'd like you to think about is how do our laws today compare to the laws then and we're going to have um Mr ATAC our our police officer come in and he's going to talk to us about what the laws for similar crimes are like today but I'd like you to be thinking about it in the meantime I try to preview questions in lessons almost every single day so that they know what's coming up and can think about it and it leads to a much richer discussion in class very often I think previewing is very important because some students need more time to think about what we're going to talk about the next day and have a chance to think about possible answers or possible reasons before we actually get into class teachers have to continuously monitor where their students are in order to apply success successfully any scaffolding techniques well one of the best practices teachers have is when they've tried something to ask how it went that helps the teacher get some feedback on whether that technique is something that was appropriate and useful in this particular case do that scaffolding is a temporary help scaffolding isn't meant to always be there a scaffold is meant to provide the support for the task that's being done during a brief amount of time and as student grow more confident and can take larger steps then you remove the scatters