Scaffolding Beneficial To Children's Development

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According to Berger (2010), scaffolding is “Scaffolding is described as a temporary effort to assist in teaching a task in order for the individual to learn the next task associated with the process of learning. There are strategies in scaffolding that could be beneficial to children’s development. Show and Tell
How many of us say that we learn best by seeing something rather than hearing about it? I think modeling for schoolchildren is a foundation of scaffolding in my experience. I use my little boy as an example; I demonstrate or show him how to kick a ball and copy what I do in his own way and have fun at the same time.
2. Taping into prior knowledge
Just as we do in this class, Dr. Stephanie encourages the class to read the weekly chapters

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