The Collaborative Classroom Classroom Diversity Classrooms are not only becoming more linguistically, culturally, and economically diverse, but they are also changing academically. The achievement needs of students contribute to the complexity of classroom diversity. To support students to acheive as they engage in various academic tasks, instructional scaffolding has become an important aspect of the curriculum. Scaffolding involves demonstrating and modeling strategies that students need to be successful.
Metacognitive classrooms are places where students learn how to learn.
Once students are familiar with different question and answers relationship strategies, they can explore ideas through discourse. Class discussion is important if teachers are to reach all students. To create a classroom environment conducive for discussion, there are several cooperative grouping structures that work well. Involves students divided into groups. Each student becomes an expert on a topic or subtopic that the class is learning about.