Scaffold is a term used to describe "the supports provided to students in order to help them access and strengthen a new concept or skill," Sarah Field (2021), a senior curriculum manager for PBLWorks, says. She calls an effective scaffolding as both an art and science. It truly is both! You need to craft contents and tasks in a way that meet where students are and guide them towards where the learning is headed to, while tapping their individual motivation.

You also need to do this in a timely manner−not dragging, but not too fast. There are so many ways to scaffold. Teachers task is to select the most meaningful and manageable scaffolds that make sense in terms of the nature of the content, the needs of the students, and the time.