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1. Snowball Fight!!!!
On a piece of paper, write down the craziest thing
you did this summer….make sure it’s school
appropriate.

2. Scaffolding to Improve
Student Learning
Brian Parise
Jim Ellis

3. Agenda
1. True/False Quiz—Activating Strategy
2. Define Scaffolding
3. What’s the Problem
4. Hitting the Targets
5. Helpful Links

4. True/False
True/False Question
T
1. ______ Scaffolding strategies can improve student learning.
T
2. ______ As a teacher, you can scaffold for students, materials, and teaching methods.
F
3. ______ Making sure students are disengaged is a strategy for scaffolding for students.
T
4. ______ Using YouTube is a strategy for scaffolding teaching materials.
T
5. ______ Lowering expectations is a strategy for scaffolding instructional practices.

5. What is Scaffolding?

6. Education
Do whatever it takes to make “grade level”
content learnable.

7. Scaffolding in Education
Provide Supports

8. What is Scaffolding?
Decrease Supports to
allow students to show
mastery.

9. So What’s the Problem?
• How does this phrase
play into what we do in
education?
• How can it relate to
scaffolding
expectations?

10. So What’s the Problem
Would you build scaffolding
around this building if all
you had to do was
replace the front door?

11. Hit the Targets!!!
1. With Students
2. With Materials
3. With Teaching
Methods

12. Scaffolding Learning for Students
1. Do I have students whose reading level is
significantly below level of text and materials being
used?
2. Do I have students who lack strategies for retaining
and applying information?
3. Are there gaps in student’s vocabulary and
background knowledge?
4. Engagement Questions
– Do any students seem to lack motivation?
– Are students interested in the content?
– Do struggling students often misbehave to avoid being
called on?

13. Scaffolding for Students
Actively Engage Provide Strategies for Remembering Key
Make sure “all” students are Information
responding “in a safe way.” (Think- Teach Memory Strategies
Pair-Share) Mnemonics
What Other Ways? Key Words
“In 1492, Columbus Sailed the Ocean
Blue.”
Others?
Provide Background Knowledge Assure Access for All Reading Levels
Have more than one source of course
Studying the Black Death content.
Audio Books
Purchased or Self Made
Kidsclick.org
Tons of information categorized
by reading levels.
Others
Others

14. Scaffolding Teaching Materials
1. What is the actual reading level of the materials being
used?
2. Is the source unclear or too abstract for learners at this
age and grade level?
3. Are the materials organized in a logical and sequential way
that helps students understand and comprehend the
content?
4. Are there clear examples and models presented to
increase student understanding?
5. Is the information in the text layered or does it have many
parts?
6. Is the information difficult or complex but crucial to
remember?

15. Scaffolding Teaching Materials
Modify Text Use Graphic Organizers or Story Maps
Add graphics, Change Font Size, Add Paint a picture of information
notes, Text to Speak, Audio
Recording, Kidsclick.org
Use Alternative Materials Teach Note Taking Strategies
Different versions of the same story Create note taking forms that utilize
YouTube has many books that have hints and cues (Guided Notes)
been made into videos (Where the LFS Foldables
Wild Things Are) Cornell Notes Format

17. Scaffolding Instructional Practices
1. Are my expectations clear?
2. Are the instructional activities contributing to
understanding?
3. Have I provided opportunities for all students to
participate in learning?
4. Is there more than one way for students to show
what they know?
5. Do I share my enthusiasm for knowledge with
my students?
6. Do I know what their interests and learning style
preferences are?

18. Scaffolding Instructional Practices
Expectations Are Clear Classes and Lessons Are Not Interesting
Use Rubrics Make connections to the learning
Use “Models” (Teacher and Student)
Papers, Projects, Assignments
Rubistar
Provide Students with More Than One Raise Expectations for Students
Way to Demonstrate Competency Raise the Bar and be a Cheerleader
Projects, drawings, presentations, Don’t Allow Failure as a Student
posters Choice
Give students Choice in
demonstrating their knowledge

19. Does the Strategy Increase Student
Engagement?
•Does the strategy get the
student’s attention?
•Does it involve all students
in lesson activities?
•Will it utilize student’s
interest and background
knowledge?

20. Can this strategy give the student
greater access to grade level content?
• Are the materials a
match or mismatch for
the student’s skill level?
• Does it include ways for
the student to use the
information in
meaningful ways?

21. Will this Teaching Method Improve the
Student’s Opportunity to Learn the Skill?
• Does the strategy give
the student feedback?
• Will this strategy
provide the students
with adequate models
and examples?

22. Ways to Scaffold Graphic Organizers
• Teach the structure
• Start with partially completed organizer
• Give locations of answers on the organizer
• Give hints on the organizer
• Give answers on the organizer
• Have multiple means of engaging with the
organizer
• Provide alternative references or sources
• Include a word or picture bank
• Restructure the number of responses needed

23. Exemplary Strategies that Match
Student Learning Needs
• Have school based or grade level planning meetings to organize
for acceleration.
• General education teachers utilize advance planners for units
with vocabulary and content.
• Students’ schedules include time for both remediation and
acceleration.
• IEP’s reflect goals for achievement in the standard course of
study.
• All teachers use exemplary teaching strategies that maximize
achievement for all students.
• Students have access to curriculum content and to classroom
engagement activities
• Students, teachers, administrators and support personnel
believe that all students can achieve at high levels.

24. Helpful Links
Accessibility Strategies for Mathematics
• http://www2.edc.org/accessmath/resources/strategiestoollist.pdf
Scaffolding Strategies for Reading/Language Arts
• http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/academics.cfm?subpage=930
Strategies for ELLs in Science
• http://www.ade.az.gov/sa/sdi/scienceELDstrategies.pdf
25 Strategies to Blend Literacy into the Content Areas
• www.outreach.olemiss.edu/celi/handouts/literary_strategies.ppt

25. 3-2-1
• 3 Strategies/Discussion Points You Learned
• 2 Strategies/Discussion Points You Are Not
Quite Sure About
• 1 Strategy/Discussion Point You want to focus
on right now!