Scaffolding is a teaching method that provides students with gradually reduced support in learning new skills until they can demonstrate mastery independently. Jerome Bruner coined the term "scaffolding" and connected it to Lev Vygotsky's zone of proximal development, which refers to the difference between what a student can do without help and with guidance. Bruner and other psychologists found that encouraging students to tackle challenging tasks within their zone of proximal development leads to the most learning.

1. Scaffolding
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Adapted by Julián Marín Hoyos
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Master in Translation and Interpreting

2. When one puts up a building one makes an
elaborate scaffold to get everything into its
proper place. But when one takes the scaffold
down, the building must stand by itself with no
trace of the means by which it was erected.
That is how a musician should work.
Andres Segovia

3. Jerome Bruner
1915 –2016
Jerome Bruner was an American
psychologist who made significant
contributions to human cognitive
psychology and cognitive learning
theory in educational psychology.

4. Scaffolding
/ˈskæf əl dɪŋ/
noun
Education.
A method of instruction in which the learner is provided with
gradually reduced support in the application of a new skill
until they can demonstrate it independently: the mastered
skill then provides the basis for acquiring the next new skill in
a similar way:
Through careful scaffolding, my students learned to
persevere and use a range of strategies to solve math
problems.

5. Jerome Bruner coined the term "scaffolding" and
connected it to Vygotsky's work. Dr. Bruner and other
psychologists began studying the use of ZPD in
different educational contexts, and they found that
encouraging students to tackle the most difficult tasks
within their ZPD leads to the most learning.

6. The Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) was a key
construct in Lev Vygotsky's theory of learning and
development. The Zone of Proximal Development is
defined as the space between what a learner can do
without assistance and what a learner can do with adult
guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.

8. References
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• Andres Segovia quotes - brainyquote. (n.d.). https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/andres_segovia_303686