What are ways that instructional practices can enhance students’ learning of content and learning strategies?
Content Objectives:
· Select learning strategies appropriate to a lesson’s objectives.
· Incorporate explicit instruction and student practice of metacognitive and cognitive strategies in lesson plans.
· Identify techniques for scaffolding verbal, procedural, and instructional understanding.
Language Objectives:
· Identify language learning strategies to use with students.
· Discuss the importance of asking higher-order questions of students of all English proficiency levels.
Discussion Board #4 Prompt:
Watch this video to see teacher Megan Montgomery talk about scaffolding for her students in social studies. Compare Ms. Montgomery’s scaffolding scheme to Figure 5.1. (p.130) in the textbook. What are the implications of each scheme for you and your students?
