Musings From A Rolling Eyed Turtle

The word just didn’t seem to fit the context.  The word that is typically used is “supporting” as in “supporting student engagement”.  But this time, the word “scaffolding” was used as in “scaffolding student engagement”.  I was intrigued! I looked up the meaning of support.  It is to promote the interests of, to hold up, to keep something going.  A scaffold, according to the dictionary is a platform on which a criminal is executed.  Since the context of where I saw word and the phrase is education, I think we can assume that definition would not fit.  But a scaffold is also a temporary structure used to support a work crew and materials to aid in construction when working at a height above the floor or ground.  Still not all that helpful! Intrigue aside; nothing was making much sense until I found this definition pertaining to the realm of education:  scaffolding is a practice where guidance and support is gradually removed to an effort to help someone learn and become more comp

With 20-20 hindsight, we can look at recorded history from the Scriptures of mankind’s interaction with God and we sometimes can come to the conclusion that a particular event or interaction might have been a big, giant “duh” moment. From the book of Exodus:  He said to them, “This is what the Lord commanded: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord . So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.’”  So they saved it until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not stink or get maggots in it. “Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a Sabbath to the Lord . You will not find any of it on the ground today.   Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”  Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather it, but they found none.   (Ex 16:23-27) The “it” was manna.  It was to be gathered, prepared and eaten within certain