“One key to shifting these hard to shift students is really helping them to know what they know....”
The phrase “What do you know that might help you here?” can be successful in scaffolding students to make connections. The importance of encouraging these connections between items of knowledge and between knowledge and strategies cannot be underestimated.
Domain: Knowledge
Transition: Not specified
Barrier: Students not knowing how to apply their knowledge contextually.
Links to theme stories:
Theme 3: Building on students' thinking
Theme 5: Making connections