Define scaffolding and give an example of how this concept could be applied to a child learning to get dressed in the morning.
What will be an ideal response?
Scaffolding is a teacher-directed strategy that involves beginning with what the child knows and then building on these skills by connecting them with new information. Student examples will vary, but one example would be when a child is learning to get dressed in the morning. There are several steps that have to be addressed. First, the child must pick out his or her clothes. Then, the child has to put on undergarments, followed by socks, pants, shirts, shoes, and so on. If a child can successfully pick out his clothes, put on his undergarments, and pull up his pants without adult intervention but struggles with buttoning his pants, we know that this is an area to address. We would begin with having the child perform all the steps up until its time to button his pants. The parent or the teacher would then button the pants but have the student zip the zipper. After this task was mastered, maybe the teacher would begin the button and then ask the child to pull it all the way through the hole after zipping his zipper. Next, maybe the teacher would ask the student to button his pants by himself. Scaffolding is a process by which adults can reinforce specific variations of the desired behaviors. One the child reaches a new level of mastery, the expectations are raised and the child is then reinforced for each closer approximation to the target behavior.
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