1. Scaffolding

2. Critical
thinking
Learning skills
Content L2 L1

3. Sessions expected outcomes
You will be able to:
define scaffolding
think about your thinking type
think about cognitive load
work with scaffolding
select ideas for scaffolding
develop scaffolds

4. What is scaffolding in the context of education?

5. Definition of scaffolding
Scaffolding includes support from people or materials that help students to reach beyond what they could do on their own. Scaffolding always supports critical thinking. It does not make learning easier, but helps learners to stay in the zone of their proximal development.

6. Zone of proximal development
Lev Vygotsky

7. ZPD ZPD What is currently beyond
the reach of the student even with help
What a student can do with help
with content scaffolding
What a student can do with help
with language scaffolding
What a student can do on his or her own
ZPD
ZPD
Source: Peeter Mehisto

8. Scaffolding features Temporary but ubiquitous
Keeps students within their zone of proximal development
Gradually withdraws
Helps students develop narratives about facts, ideas and concepts
Aimed at developing universal competences

9. Your thinking and its effect on students’ learning
Stable Against Flexible thinking

10. What about you?
Answer the following five questions. You are not obliged to share your answers.

11. What do you feel and what do you do, when:
Carol Dweck (2012) Mindset: How you can fulfil your potential. Constable & Robinson Limited.
What do you feel and what do you do, when:
You come across a problem or an obstacle
You come across difficulties
You are criticized
You are asked to make more effort
You see that someone else succeeding?

12. 7

13. 7 generations (Жеті ата)

14. 7 wonders of the world… Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt
2,600 BC
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Iraq
Date unknown
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Turkey
6th century BC
Statue of Zeus, Greece
5th century BC
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Turkey
4th century BC
Colossus of Rhodes, Rhodes -
Lighthouse of Alexandria, Ehypt
3rd century BC

15. 7 celestial spheres

16. 7 seas Arctic ocean Northern part of the Atlantic ocean
Southern part of the Atlantic ocean
Indian ocean
Northern part of the Pacific ocean
Southern part of the Pacific ocean
Southern ocean

17. 7 deadly sins
Envy
Gluttony
Greed
Lust
Pride
Sloth
Wrath

18. 7 virtues Humility Kindness Patience Diligence Charity Temperance
Chastity

20. Supermarket of ideas Look at the ideas on the wall. Find 5 you like
Explain how you could use one of them