Scaffolding is the art of breaking down complex information, concepts and skills into bite-sized chunks of increasing complexity to aid in the learning process. One popular scaffolding approach is through the use of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Bloom’s Taxonomy consists of 6 stages with gradually increasing complexity.
[1] Educators start by giving tasks that train learners to remember new information, and slowly work their way through increasingly complex tasks until learners are able to create original work using the new information or skill.
As a BeED Educator, you can make full use of the various features on the BeED platform to implement effective scaffolding in your classrooms.
Tip 1: Use Bloom’s Taxonomy in your lesson maps.
When creating lessons, you can download the map template for Bloom’s Taxonomy to help you organise your lesson contents. Create one Point for each stage of Bloom’s taxonomy, from Point A to Point F. You can then create different learning activities for each point in accordance with it’s respective stage in Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Tip 2: Use Stages and Blocks to further breakdown activities into smaller chunks
Even in each step of Bloom’s Taxonomy, you can choose to further break down your activities/tabs to help scaffold your learners step by step.
When creating question blocks, try not to have more than one question per block, and slowly increase the difficulty from easy to hard.