Scaffolding
Eva Sclippa, First Year Engagement Librarian at UNC Wilmington As a teaching librarian, I’m fortunate that the library’s Coordinator of Instructional Services organizes regular discussions about pedagogy and instructional design in our division’s weekly meetings.Our theme for this semester has been scaffolding in instructional design, and the blog team felt it might be beneficial to share an overview of scaffolding with the SIG. What is scaffolding? Scaffolding is what it sounds like: building support structures for your students to guide them through mastering a new concept, often by breaking that concept into smaller pieces and then withdrawing pieces of the scaffold as they become more confident with the material.Read More →