2. Being language educator is never easy since each student has
unique background, motivation as well as learns differently.
As an example, kinesthetic learners are different to visual
learners and drafting good teacher’s plan that tailors
everyone’s needs is never easy.
However, we can provide appropriate assistance to students
so that they may achieve something beyond what they could
achieve on their own.
This is what scaffolding is all about and in this presentation I
will try to outline some useful ideas.
3. We as teachers should always consider how information is
verbally presented or explained to the students in the
classroom. Tips and tricks to provide better verbal
scaffolds include slowing your speech, enunciating clearly
and using ‘read-alouds’ to model correct pronunciation.
Verbal Scaffolds
4. Scaffolding can also be incorporated through the
content and materials used in learning and in the
environment to support students as they progress.
Procedural scaffolds can be created through the use of
visual tools or graphic organizers such as mind maps
and wall charts to help learners understand complicated
text and organize information. Discussion prompts such
as sentence frames also provide invaluable support and
structure so that second language learners can produce
sentences on their own.
Procedural Scaffolds
5. Modeling and demonstrating language orally or in writing to the
learner
Encouraging learners to occasionally use their native language
Activating prior knowledge about a new topic to create a
context for the new learning
Incorporating collaborative group or pair work into lessons
Using visuals and graphic organizers such as pictures, models,
diagrams, grids, tables and graphs to support understanding
Providing language prompts and frames for speaking and
writing
6 teaching strategies that embrace
scaffolding in the classroom
6. Thank you for your time.
It is the end of the presentation.
