We know that scaffolding is important. That’s providing successive levels of support to help students achieve higher levels of understanding and performance. It involves breaking a task down into parts, providing structured controlled practice, and… Avoid too much controlled practice

Where do we put our focus when preparing a class? Do we focus on what we are going to do – planning our instructions, our comprehension checking questions (CCQs), our handouts, and other elements of… Change I to The students

Think about interaction in the world outside the classroom. Are you able to predict every aspect of a communicative event? OK, your schema knowledge will help you – this is the mental store you have… Communication is Unpredictable