Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Gradual Release Model


The Gradual Release Model is one of the most important steps to teaching. This is a scaffolding technique that the teacher performs in order for her students to learn how to do something on their own with no assistance or modeling from the teacher.  First thing to do when doing the Gradual Release Model is to explicitly teach. “I do it, we do it, and you do it,” is the basis of this model. First the teacher does it to show the students, then the teacher and the students do it together, and finally the students will be able to do it on their own with no help. Jeff Wilhem added “Y’all do it to the model placed before the “you do it” so that students can do it together before they do it by themselves. The Gradual Release Model is very effective with ESOL students as well as teaching mainstream students because each student needs to be explicitly taught something to learn something new. When teaching ESOL students, it is important to go over the new technique one-on-one because students can benefit better when they are learning alone rather than working as a whole in a classroom. As for testing ESOL students, it is important to consider current issues and know techniques for teaching, scaffolding, and testing. (ESOL 19)

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