Human Growth and Development / Unit 1 HGD 0035 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Scaffolding
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The idea
Scaffolding is support given to a learner inside the zone of proximal development and gradually withdrawn as the learner's competence grows.
In practice
Training wheels, then a parent's hand on the bicycle seat that finally lets go.
Where people slip
The support is temporary by design: its purpose is to become unnecessary as the skill becomes the learner's own.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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