Giving support in order to help the performance of a task, whereby this support is faded. An expert designer thinking aloud during the design of a product, thereby pointing out critical aspects and important decisions during design. Afterwards students try to imitate this behaviour. Students design a product, an expert designer monitors their progress, solves problems together with the students, motivates students, and points them towards different directions. Students design a product, an expert designer monitors their progress, solves problems together with the students, motivates students, and points them towards different directions, during the process of designing students take over the responsibility, and are left to themselves by the expert.
Scaffolding is interactive.
This means that fading reacts to the level of an individual student or group of students, and that it is tailored to their current level of understanding. So, the sequence of events in scaffolding can not be described beforehand. Scaffolding can use these two and adds the aspect of fading. The support that is given by modeling performance, the support that is given by coaching, or other types of support given are faded so that the learner becomes self-reliant. Designing constructivist learning environments.