Scaffolding Without Scripting

  1. How can rubrics and scaffolding provide structure for inquiry without limiting autonomy or dictating steps?
  2. What routines, prompts, and intervention strategies maintain productive inquiry while allowing intellectual risk-taking?
  3. How can teachers differentiate scaffolding to support varied independence levels while distinguishing productive struggle from unproductive frustration?
  4. What classroom norms and reflection practices foster self-directed learning and student-owned goal setting?
  5. How can inquiry-based lessons maintain relevance to students’ lived experiences while addressing resistance to non-traditional formats?
  6. What feedback language and intervention timing best help students learn from mistakes without short-circuiting discovery?

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