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Scaffolding with Venn Diagrams

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Creating and using concept maps tends to have a high positive impact on student achievement.* Concept maps (graphic organisers) help students to see how various pieces of knowledge relate to one another. It helps structure their thinking. ** Venn diagrams are one type […]

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Scaffolding Academic Language with ‘What’s Missing?’ (Pre-School/lower primary)

This scaffold is magic!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind the scaffold… ‘Intelligence is not necessarily hereditary. Education can transform a child’ asserts Karl Witte*, a pioneer in blended learning. We have the tools, he says, to help our students to change the course of their academic and then professional lives,

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Scaffolding International Turtle Day through Poetry and Philosophy (Primary)

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… May 23 – International Turtle Day.  Go ahead, get it over with….have a good laugh….then keep reading! The more we know about these amazing creatures and the literary connections they inspire, the more we realise that this day gives us

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Scaffolding International Turtle Day through Poetry and Philosophy (Primary)

You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… May 23 – International Turtle Day.  Go ahead, get it over with….have a good laugh….then keep reading! The more we know about these amazing creatures and the literary connections they inspire, the more we realise that this day gives us

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Playback Theatre: Embodying the CLIL methodology

Playback Theatre: Embodying the CLIL methodology Tomás motos teruel, ph.d.Instituto de Creatividad e Innovaciones Educativas, Universidad de ValenciaDonna Lee Fields, Ph.D.Universidad Internacional de ValenciaLACLIL (Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning)July 2014 Introduction The simultaneous education of the mind and body, the nurturing of imagination, and the use of secular venues to foment education,

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