This is an assignment that just requires the reading of an article and watching a video to answer a series of questions. Each question is separate from one another and is to be answered EACH in a different paragraph. It is not meant to be a formal paper. Link to the video to watch: https://www.learner.org/series/the-learning-classroom-theory-into-practice/learning-from-others-learning-in-a-social-context/
Questions 1 and 2 to answer each in their own paragraph using the article. (article will be attached to files) Questions 3, 4, and 5 each in their own paragraph will be based on the video with the link provided.
Question 1: Explain what scaffolding means and how teachers do it
Question 2: What is “distributed expertise”? Describe and explain one example of a classroom activity that shows this idea in practice.
Question 3: Video Cue: The Learning Classroom icon fades out at approximately 12:15 into the program. Audio Cue: Ms. Scott says, “There’s a couple of people who have been helping everybody on the computer, and some people have been helping them to help with their wording on their reports and their art projects. And so they’ve been collaborating, and different people have taken the lead and everything. And so, I see the class coming together.”
• What are some of the specific signs that Ms. Scott’s students are becoming a learning community?
• What did you notice about the teacher’s role?
• What did you observe about the students’ roles in the classroom?
Question 4: Video Cue: The Learning Classroom icon fades out at approximately 19:30 into the program. Audio Cue: Mr. Barlowe says, “So that you’re constantly holding up their ideas to them in a way that they can look at them. And think about them so the discussion is not, and you’re helping to structure the discussion in that way even though it’s very much them exchanging their ideas.”
• How does Mr. Barlowe manage the students’ discussion?
• What specific strategies do you notice him using?
• What kinds of challenges or dilemmas might whole-class discussions like this one present for the teacher?
Question 5: Video Cue: The Learning Classroom icon fades out at approximately 26:00 into the program. Audio Cue: Mr. Barlowe says, “You know, I think that really everybody in there can see that on any given day somebody can say something that makes you think about something in a way that you haven’t thought about it before. And it doesn’t matter who that kid is in the classroom. And that’s good for every kid in that classroom.”
• What did you notice about how Mr. Barlowe reinforces an environment of respect among his students?
• What did you notice about the students’ responses to each others’ questions?
• What strategies did you observe that you might use (or currently use) in your own classroom?
Extra note: EACH question in a paragraph form and there is no need for directly quoting the article or video, just thoroughly answer the 5 questions, also no works cited is needed (there should be 5 paragraphs at the end, one for each question)