Scaffolding Curriculum

A scaffolding curriculum is one in which skills are introduced and gradually taken to higher levels over time. One example of this is in the Technology Applications TEKS for middle school (grades 6-8). For example, a student might be introduced to spreadsheet software in the 6th grade year, but not taught to create charts and graphs from data until the following year. Finally, during the 8th grade year, the student may build in-depth formulas to perform complex calculations on the data. In this model, students are given the opportunity to take the software one piece at a time in order to internalize one part of the functionality before delving into another.