Modeling is an instructional strategy where a teacher demonstrates a new concept or approach to learning and students learn through observation. This one-pager offers strategies for teachers to use modeling, scaffolding, and thinking aloud to narrate their decisions and choices to help students internalize and build their schemata.
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