The Scaffolding Effect: Hunting, not Fishing

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of actively seeking student understanding in the classroom, featuring insights from educator-authors Rachel Ball and Alex Fairlamb.

Bringing 2025 to a close with one of our most important conversations! Tune in as we chat with educator-authors, Rachel Ball and Alex Fairlamb, on why we need to be hunters in our classrooms, searching for student understanding, instead of hoping and fishing for mastery. The Scaffolding Effect is one of the best professional development books we've ever read; truly scaffolding and chunking material down for all of us to understand. Happy year-end to all of our listeners!

People in this episode

Hosts: Suzy Evans, Shane Saeed

Guests: Rachel Ball, Alex Fairlamb

Topics covered

• student understanding
• professional development
• scaffolding
• education
• classroom strategies

Keywords

• scaffolding
• student mastery
• education
• classroom
• professional development

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Scaffolding Effect

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