Teachers, I need your help!

[Ginger]

it also builds a strong foundation and a base for them to always come back to if they get stuck in their future learning iykwim?
that makes no sense does it?
idk how to say it...
like, they have to build on their past knowledge to move through

[Ryatha]

Yep - and giving scaffolding enables the teacher to gradually reduce the scaffolding as the student learns how to build their own. As the student learns more, by building up their own knowledge, they no longer need teacher supplied scaffolding. But if the scaffolding wasn't there at all, they wouldn't have anything to attach the 'original' knowledge to.

[Ginger]

that's it ryatha!