Category: spectrum of struggle

• 02/03/2014

  When to scaffold, if at all

  It’s been a while since I’ve revisited the Taxonomy of Problems I threw together a while back, but I think it’ll be helpful to spend some time there when considering the following Most-Wanted question around Problem-Based Learning: At what point after allowing the students to work on a problem do I scaffold the content knowledge?…

• 12/16/2012

  The Struggle for Productive Struggle

  This NPR radio spot confirms much of what we already know about struggle. There’s so much good stuff in this report, I’d encourage you to go listen to it or read it. Here are a couple nuggets I found particularly illuminating (emphasis mine). ================= For example, Stigler says, in the Japanese classrooms that he’s studied,…