Providing Instructional Supports: Facilitating Mastery of New Skills

Assessment

Take some time now to answer the following questions. Please note that the IRIS Center does not collect your Assessment responses. If this is a course assignment, turn it in using your professor’s preferred method. If you have trouble answering any of the questions, go back and review the Perspectives & Resources pages in this module.

1. What are the two critical elements to keep in mind when using instructional scaffolding?
2. Briefly describe the three approaches to instructional scaffolding presented in this module.
3. List at least two reasons why modeling error detection and correction is important.
4. Imagine you are a fourth-grade teacher and one of your students, who has a learning disability, is experiencing difficulty with long division:
   1. Which of the approaches discussed in this module would you use to scaffold instruction for this student?
   2. Why did you choose this approach?
   3. Give a detailed description of how you would use this approach to scaffold instruction for this student.