Scaffolding refers to a process in which teachers model or demonstrate how to solve a problem, and then step back, offering support to students as needed. It has mainly three features: contingency, ...

Scaffolding is an instructional practice where a teacher gradually removes guidance and support as students learn and become more competent. Support can be for content, processes, and learning ...

Vol. 63, No. 5, Special Issue: Embodied Cognition and Language Learning in Virtual Environments (October 2015), pp. 691-708 (18 pages) Vocabulary is the foundation for students who learn a foreign ...

А comprehensive teaching and learning toolkit on Social and Emotional Learning has been developed to help preschool educators create an enabling learning environment, positive climate and equip ...

How do preschools best ensure that children are learning to get along with others, handle their emotions, focus on a specific task, and persist despite facing challenges? That’s the question ...

Argumentation is central to instruction centered on socio-scientific issues (Sadler & Donnelly in International Journal of Science Education, 28(12), 1463-1488, 2006. doi: 10.1080/09500690600708717).

Worry that your child’s preschool will focus on only a few areas of development? The Bank Street approach to preschool emphasizes educating the whole child — emotionally, physically, socially and ...

Children yearn to explore the world around them. Eagerly, they observe, wonder, imagine and pretend. They ask hard questions, push their bodies to climb obstacles, plan complicated tasks for ...