The Use of Scaffolds for Teaching High-Level Cognitive Strategies by Rosenshine & Meister

Teaching higher-order thinking continues to be a hot topic in education. This is no different in CISD. This year we have introduced Instructional Rounds. After our first site visit, the CHS leadership team developed a Momentum Plan. Part of this plan requires a "study." We chose the article entitled The Use of Scaffolds for Teaching High-Level Cognitive Strategies by Rosenshine and Meister.

In this article, the authors note that higher-level questions do not occur naturally in the process of instruction. Therefore, higher-level questions must be purposefully plan. At CHS, we have found that planning questions does not ensure the execution or delivery of questions written and documented in lesson plans. Therefore, we have developed questions stems to help teachers move a question at the lower level of Blooms to a higher-level - scaffolding of questions. Each department generate a list to best fit the content area.

After reading this article, teacher were asked to bring 5 keys learnings from the article to discuss within their PLCs.