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going and stick to it | Unprepared – we’re not sure exactly where we’re going with the lesson, but hoping for the best |\n| Easy to learn – we dig our heels into the Zone of Proximal Development, supporting readers in just the right way so they feel safe taking risks when things are challenging | Easy to give up -our teaching behaviors encourage readers to abandon their attempts, sit back, and let someone else do it |\n| Intentional – every move we make is exact, decided, and well-reasoned | Chance – we’re grabbing at straws and unsure of whether our teaching moves are appropriate |\n| Proactive – we anticipate student behaviorsand needs as we prepare our lessons | Reactive – our teaching decisions are knee-jerk at best often leaving us unsure of their effectiveness |\n| Derived from knowledge – we make sound decisions based in what we know about the reader and best instructional practices | Arrives from discomfort and uncertainty – we aren’t sure what to do, so our dissonance prompts us to jump in without reflecting |\n| Assumes innate ability-we know our reader has the strength inside to take on the task at hand as we wait, trust, and facilitate | Assumes helplessness – perhaps unconsciously, we may not trust the reader to step up and may be unsure if he can be successful without us |\n| Deliberate – we plan ahead, stay focused, and fill our bag of tricks with appropriate, intentional teaching moves derived from our own professional development | Accidental – our teaching moves can be rash and hit or miss, and while we may score some terrific teaching moments, we aren’t always sure why or how they occurred |\n| Calculated – our lessons and conversations are tightly focused, and we don’t lose sight of the goal | Impulsive – the lesson is loose and hurried, leaving our teaching feeling vague and scattered |\n| Student focused – every move we make is dependent on the student taking some level of responsibility, and we strive to promote strategies students will use when reading independently | Instructor focused – we’ve taken so much responsibility that when we step out of the situation, the reading stops or reverts back to its previous status |\n| Plan for removal – we understand that all scaffolds are built to be removed eventually and we move forward with that end goal in mind | No plan for removal – our instructional language and prompts are the same for most of our lessons making them inadvertently stagnate |\n\n\n| Intentionally shared workload – we understand that scaffolding takes two and are mindful of the dual responsibilities of the reader and the teacher | Teacher doing most of the work – in an effort to move the lesson along, we control the conversation and the text while the student lets us |\n| --- | --- |\n| Empowering – both reader and teacher walk away from the lesson feeling valued and capable-a natural byproduct of true reciprocal learning | Exhausting – both reader and teacher are tired from the instructional push and pull and overall disconnect of the lesson |\n| Expects active readers – we address apathy in our teaching as well as our learners and insist that they sit up, participate, and‘take the bull by the horns’ | Generates passive readers – we allow readers to take part as a quasi-involved participant, unintentionally training them to do the same when it comes time to read independently |\n\n©Terry Thompson All rights [reserved. www.choiceliteracy.com](reserved. www.choiceliteracy.com)","cbCaivud05DtxcbM","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivud05DtxcbM","pdf",61754,"English","# Scaffolding: Planned vs. Unprepared Teaching\n## Learning zone and risk-taking\n## Instructional intent vs. chance\n## Knowledge-based decisions vs. uncertainty\n## Reader responsibility vs. instructor control\n## Planning scaffold removal vs. stagnation","[{\"question\":\"What does the text say about planned versus unprepared instruction in scaffolding?\",\"answer\":\"Planned instruction clearly directs where teaching is going and 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