Hi Summer,

I totally agree with you that the “scaffolds” are important in learning designs. It requires teachers to represent the instructions or requirement in steps, just as construction workers build the scaffolding of a building higher and higher until the building is strong enough to stand alone. Actually for me, scaffolds are the temporary assistance by which a teacher helps a learner to know how to do something, so that the learner will later be able to complete a similar task alone. For example, before the class, the teacher can show students a related video, and asked them warm-up questions. These scaffolding steps can arouse students’ interests in today’s class topics.