ABSTRACT
A key to motivating struggling learners is to provide them with support and scaffolding. It is important to realize that support should be used at an appropriate level through the learning process. Effective support is structured, leads to understanding, provides for differentiation, promotes connections, optimizes strategic learning, limits repetition, and is tied to memory. Structured modeling is also needed when you expect students to complete a process, a higher-order task, or a project. Good support also provides for some differentiation. Effective support must be tied to a student's memory. Repetition only works for memorizing isolated facts, and even that only provides short-term learning. Repetition rarely provides long-term learning. Engagement, there are two types of prior knowledge-content knowledge and strategic knowledge. Many students can not focus on the content when they do not understand the strategy they should use for learning. one need to help them optimize their strategic knowledge in order to be motivated to learn.
