The Use of Scaffolds for Teaching Higher-Level Cognitive Strategies Not only are scaffolds useful for teaching well-structured skills, but they also provide the support students need to tackle higher-level thinking strategies. caffolds (.26
How to Teach Higher-Order Cognitive Strategies 1. Present the new cognitive strate gies. 2. Regulate difficulty during guided practice. 3. Provide varying contexts for student practice. 4. Provide feedback. 5. Increase student responsibility. 6. Provide independent practice.
Thinking aloud by the teacher and more capable students provided novice learners with a way to observe "expert thinking" usually hidden from the student.
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The goal of independent practice is to develop unitization of the strategy, that is, the blending of elements into a single, unified whole.
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