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Scaffolding Effectively with Alex Fairlamb and Rachel Ball, Mind the Gap, Ep.116 (S6,E14)

From Mind the Gap: Making Education Work Across the Globe · Hosted by Tom Sherrington & Emma Turner

2026-02-20·00:55:56

Episode summary

In this episode of Mind the Gap: Making Education Work Across the Globe: On this episode of Mind the Gap , Tom Sherrington and Emma Turner are joined by Alex Fairlamb and Rachel Ball, co-authors of The Scaffolding Effect , to explore what scaffolding really is (and isn’t) and why it has become such a pivotal idea in the move from “differentiation” to adaptive teaching.

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On this episode of Mind the Gap , Tom Sherrington and Emma Turner are joined by Alex Fairlamb and Rachel Ball, co-authors of The Scaffolding Effect , to explore what scaffolding really is (and isn’t) and why it has become such a pivotal idea in the move from “differentiation” to adaptive teaching.…