Assignment for Unit 3 - Children as social beings

Scaffolding is a type of adult help which provides the conditions in which children
can carry out activities or solve problems that they could not do unaided. It can
involve some of the following:
• Helps children to make sense of the activity – its purpose
• Reminds them of what they need to do
• Models and make explicit the procedures they need to use
• Encourages
• Draws attention to relevant information
• Prompts them
• Gives helpful feedback
• Suggests strategies or procedures
All of those things above describe how teachers help to structure activities for
children so they can carry them out successfully until children can do it for
themselves. This structuring makes visible for children what they need to do when
they carry out learning activities. Gradually children will internalize these
procedures and so be able to understand what to do by themselves.
Scaffolding
• is flexible and changes in response to a child’s need - it is gradually reduced
over time or increased again when a child faces new learning challenges.
• enables a child to focus on a particular skill or concept he /she is in the process
of learning.
• aims at building confidence in the short term.
aims at building children’s long-term capacity to learn and regulate their own
learning.

Watch the video (https://youtu.be/EVqH1k3RKqo)and answer the questions.

1. What have these children already learned?

2. What does the teacher want them to do independently?

3. How does the teacher help them to achieve this goal? List the things she
does. (You can use the ideas given in the box above as guidance for your
answer)