Adaptive Teaching: Questions and Scaffolding
How do we ensure all students are thinking hard?
We all want to make sure that all students are thinking hard. But what does this look like in practice? Adaptive Teaching offers an exciting vehicle to enable this. Two core features of this are maximising questions and scaffolding support. This includes different types of questions, how to get high-quality answers from all students, and the contrast between novices and experts.
This workshop will explore the latest and greatest research on how best to do this. As a result, your staff will be better informed on what it is and better able to decide what this looks like in their classroom.
Adaptive Teaching – Key messages
Checking for Understanding
- Why this is fundamental to adaptive teaching
Thinking and Participation Ratios
- Ensure all students are thinking hard and cognitively engaged
- Ensure all students are participating
Questions
- Using questioning strategies that maximise learning
- Questioning to gain feedback that allows for adaptive teaching to be applied
- Effective and collaborative Cold-Calling
- The importance and use of Wait Times
Scaffolding
- High expectations for all
- Challenge vs support
- Experts vs novices
- When to reduce support
Ongoing Teacher Training
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