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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All learners have something strong to bring to the table.  Honor all of their strengths.  Vary the scaffolding to achieve both common and personal goals for all students.  [/quote]
I'm having a hard time understanding "vary the scaffolding."  Can you give a concrete example of what this would look like?[/quote]

Sure, the idea is that all students receive challenging work in a heterogeneous classroom.  Challenging work means that tasks or activities for each student is optimally engaging so that all students are working slightly above their comfort zone.  So, growth and progress are the goals.  So, when you differentiate the instruction, it looks like choices of books where a wide range of reading materials are offered, varied prompts for writing in a journal, flexible groupings that change throughout the day, multiple levels of questions being asked on the same concept, you create literacy centers where the task/workload varies, using podcasts and other multimedia to "assist" when assistance is needed, or you vary the graphic organizers based on students' interest, readiness.  You have can have audio/video recorders as a scaffold; you can highlight print materials, you can have note-taking organizers of varying degrees of difficulty, etc.  [/quote]

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