Childcare Course: Scaffolding, Pedagogy, and Early Literacy Essay

This essay explores the importance of scaffolding in early literacy education, focusing on its role in supporting children's language and literacy development. It discusses how scaffolding, as a method of providing effective assistance to children, facilitates learning and skill development. The essay also delves into various theoretical perspectives, such as classical conditioning, cognitive theory, operant conditioning, and social learning theory, and their relationship to teaching pedagogy. It examines different pedagogical approaches, including constructivist, integrative, collaborative, and inquiry-based learning, highlighting the connection between theoretical frameworks and practical teaching methods in early literacy. The essay concludes that scaffolding, combined with effective teaching pedagogy grounded in theoretical perspectives, significantly impacts children's learning and literacy development.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Scaffolding refers to the type of assistance which are effective and allow to provide to child
during performing any activity. This can help in accomplishing any tasks of work which can be
done through getting some assistance. This is the one that can allow to perform different activity
by any child that can lead to create an impact on delivery of service for getting better learning to
children in their early years. it is the one which allow support worker to help children in their
learning process for their better growth and development. This allow children to resolve any
issue of problem and carry out some task that are beyond their capabilities. In this, essay there is
discussion about the importance of scaffolding along with intentional teaching within early
literacy education (Contessi Negrini & et. al., (2019)). There is also discussion about the
integration of theoretical perspective within current practices. This essay also includes discussion
about relationship between teaching pedagogy and theoretical perspectives which focus on the
early literacy.
MAIN BODY
Scaffolding can be defined as the method which are offered through teachers that is effective
and provide support to children or student for their better learning and for their effective
development through learning new skills or any concept. This is the one in which teacher try to
share the solution to any problem which can be learned by student or children through
developing their skills and get better learning. In this, student may work together to resolve any
problem and get learning about some new concepts. This can be representing as the temporary
support system which are provided by the teachers to help in accomplishing any task. Through
this, children get better learning which allow them to get better education and enable them to
resolve the problem related with completing their tasks (Valencia-Vallejo & et. al., (2018)).
There is high importance of scaffolding which are effective and allow to get better and
effective learning that can allow to get better development of children. Scaffolding allows
teaching to proper guidance in provide clear direction which can allow to learn new techniques
through using those they may get better learning and response in accomplishing their work. This
also help to eliminating anxiety or confusion. This also hep to provide clear expectation which
are easily understand by the student what is being expecting from them through scaffolding. This
enable them how to start and perform different activity themselves (Eveline & et. al., (2019)).

This also help in gradual increasing independence which are expected through them during entire
task performance. Student may get sometime discourage in which through using this method,
teacher is able to encourage them to perform their task through new start and allow to evolve
them in getting better learning which can allow to get better development and learning during
teaching. Student may get discourage when they are not able to understand the subject matter
effectively where scaffolding allows to build some confidence within student which are allow
them to tackle such type of situation more effectively.
It also provides some motivation within student which allow to perform task more
efficiently and get succeed (Abdullah & et. al., (2021)). This motivate them to learn more and get
more about the subject instead of getting depressed and feel like they are not build for that. There
is some more importance of using the model of scaffolding which includes different way that
allow to perform them well and learn more. In this, there is need to provide learning through
using different techniques which can allow to get better interaction with student and introduce
the learning in unique way that can allow to attract them and get excited to get learning. This can
allow to develop literacy and education within student (Dietel & et. al., (2018)). This also
encourage them to use different technique which are effective and provide better learning that
can help in getting better impact on teaching. This also help student to get motivated when there
is use of some unique way to introduce the subject matter that can influence student to participate
in learning process. In this, through using the visual aids can be effective way to introduce nay
new learning or skill towards student which allow to improve their leaning and help in getting
better understand about the using of scaffolding toll effectively. Through using graphs and charts
allow them to take care about the sharing of information with children or student which help
them in organizing and assimilating data before use (Neumann, (2020)).
Through allowing students to ask question can also be effective where student can ask
question on regular interval which allow them to enhance their understanding and it also help in
clearing up misconceptions during occur instead of end of discussion. This is an effective way
that allow to get better understanding about the making connection which allow to ensure about
student materials that should be connected through the old learning which help in getting cover
new learning more effectively. Some importance also includes that through using the model of
scaffolding which allow teachers to share the information about new learning through connecting
the previous learning. This can enable student to easily understand about the new topic and

perform better in process of learning. Scaffolding is effective techniques which allow individual
to take care about the new learning through using different techniques (Kirova & et. al., (2018)).
This allow to get better support in children language and their literacy. Children have the
capacity to learn more effectively which allow to get better understanding about the topic when it
is described in some unique way. This allow to make them excited towards learning of new
concept and get supported during performing any task. This allow to get learn about the children
language which can help in improving their learning and get better interaction between children
and student that can help in getting better progress in literacy and learning. Through using
scaffolding model which allow teacher to deliver new learning and provide support which can be
effective and help in getting better delivery of support to them. This also allow them to take care
about the delivery of support that can help in student proper development and help in getting
understand about the language development and literacy (Dore (2020)).
There is various theoretical perspective which are related with the teaching pedagogy
which have the focus on early literacy. This can be through of well-developed theoretical
positive related with some aspect of social and education phenomenon which can relates with the
starting points and have some sense of research topics. This can be set of assumptions and
provides a lens through which individual may understand serving of focus or any distort. To take
care about the children and young adult learning there is different theoretical perspective which
may include classical conditioning, cognitive theory, operant conditioning along with social
learning theory (Pyle & et. al., (2018)).
Classical conditioning can be type of condition in which individual may respond to some
stimulus which should not ordinarily produce like response. It refers to the process of learning
which can be associated with the particular thing within our environment with prediction of what
will happen next. This includes the stimulus through which individual may respond according to
past experience. This can also provide learning through responding according to the past
experience (Yelland, (2018)). Through operation conditioning of learning prospective allow to
learn through the individual behaviour which are done randomly which allow to get better and
effective response. This allow to learn about the new learning which can be effective and allow
to get better and effective response that can lead to create learning within children and students.
This create the learning through response when it is repeated help to get the information about
the response of any activity. Through cognition, individual may influence their thoughts,

knowledge of interpretations and ideas about themselves within environment. This influence to
learn through using the constructive thoughts process like using memory of practices. Cognitive
learning can be analysed through mental processes. Social learning theory also known as the
observational learning. In this, individual learn by observing about the what happens instead of
getting told about the things. Children may learn through observing parents, teachers, motion
pictures, peers, bosses, TV artists and others. This is the one in which individual learn the
behaviour through observing other people (Carrillo (2020)). This can help to learn the
consequences that can influence central issues. Here, individual may learn through different
processes which includes the attention process, retention process, motor reproduction process,
reinforcement process. These are some of the process which are associated with individual
learning. These are some of the learning which can be effective that can allow to get better
understating about the leaning and provide better education to children for better learning.
Pedagogy refers to the act of teaching which are generally adopted by the teachers which
shapes their judgements, actions along with other teaching strategies which are effective through
taking in consideration about theories of learning, understating student’s needs, student’s
interests and their background of every individual. This is the one through which teacher allow to
delivery their teaching service to every individual child to get learn about new learning and help
through understanding their needs and requirement which can lead to create high impact on
students learning (Cherng, (2019)). There are some of the major approach which may include
constructivist, integrative, collaborative, reflective along with inquiry based learning. This is a
method or practices for teacher to provide learning and education to children for their better
growth and development. There is various pedagogical aspect of learning in which individual
may increase the learning through using professional teaching. This is effective and help to
improve individual learning to the children.
There are many parts of pedagogy which can include feedback, styles and assessment. This
includes the different teaching method that can be effective for providing learning to children
and student for their better development. Teachers can use different approaches which can be
effective in delivering of better teaching and learning to children and students. Constructivism
includes the traditional teaching methods which have the focus on idea of learning where
children are active learners. This pedagogy place child at the centre of learning which can be
referred as the invisible pedagogy (Chalmers, (2018)). Social constructivism can be developed

by the cognitive psychologist which includes that learning refers to a collaborative process which
have the focus on idea of children along with children work together for better outcomes.
Behaviourism refers to the centre of learning practices where knowledge can be delivered during
the curriculum to taught discretely. This allow teacher to understand and help curricular
opportunity for allowing students to explore subjects in more depth. Liberations includes that
education refers to a discovery process where educator needs to collaborate together testing
different concepts. These are some of the relationship between theoretical perspective and
teaching pedagogy which have the focus on early literacy (Schoenfeld & et. al., (2020)).
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it can have concluded that there is high impact of scaffolding
which can help in getting better support for children language along with their literacy
development. This can lead to create high impact on delivery of better and effective response.
Through using different theoretical perspective can allow to get better and effective response in
children learning where teaching pedagogy is highly effective which help to support individual
in getting better learning. In this essay, there is discussion about the importance of scaffolding
during supporting children language and literacy development. There is also discussion about the
relationship between theoretical perspective along with teaching pedagogy which have a focus
on early literacy.

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