Scaffolding
What it’s not:
❎ creating different tasks for children
❎ making the work easier
❎ catering for a perceived learning style
What it is:
✅ adapting a challenging task to enable success
✅ reducing cognitive load
✅ gradually removed
Nick Hart
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Nick Hart
@MrNickHart
Principal @CognitaSchools | MBA Educational Leadership @CEL_IOE | Author of #ImpactBook and #CultureBook
Joined August 2011
- LEADERSHIP HANDBOOKS A thread on the reasons for having a senior and middle leadership handbook and how we’re planning to use them.
- New post on leadership handbooks To all who DMed (or tried to), there are links to download the senior and middle leadership handbooks at the end of the post. Hope they’re useful! thisismyclassroom.wordpress.com/2020/07/22/lea…
- ✍️NEW POST✍️ What I got wrong about pupil progress meetings thisismyclassroom.wordpress.com/2022/02/03/wha…
- Favourite etymological pairing: PTERodactyl HelicoPTER Pter meaning wing.
GIF - I bookmark a lot of tweets to read later and some are so useful that they stay there for future reference. Here’s what I’ve filed this year… 🧵 1/25
- The climate that leaders establish in schools makes or breaks school improvement. A positive climate retains teachers, improves motivation and eventually outcomes for children. Here are some things worth knowing… 🧵 1/11
- School and MAT leaders: What’s your school improvement model? How do you go about improving your school? Here’s a model and a thread explaining it… 🧵 1/11
- Some thoughts on encouraging better attendance through considering positive interactions and understanding belonging… 🧵 1/22
- All my posts about curriculum and subject leadership in one thread. Which might you have missed the first time around? Which do you still think about? 🧵 1/13
- If you missed my talk @researchED1 today, here’s a summary. Blog post out in the morning… #rED22 🧵 1/11
- Leadership handbooks thisismyclassroom.wordpress.com/2020/07/22/lea…
- School improvement is fundamentally about learning. An indicator of school improvement is that children learn more. But children can’t learn more without the adults learning more. And this is much more than professional development… 🧵 1/12
