Specific Application of Scaffolding Instruction in Law Courses

Abstract

It is a beneficial attempt for us to use the scaffolding instruction based on constructivism theory during teaching basic legal courses in the curriculum of college general education. The specific practices are as follows: firstly, the teacher clarifies goals and teaching purpose, gives main concepts of law and builds the main body of law course content framework. Secondly, the teacher guides students to autonomously learn through theoretical teaching and case analysis, and then helps them to finish legal learning task independently. Class experiments show that scaffolding instruction is beneficial to help students to set up a system of legal knowledge, improve the ability of their understanding of the rule of law and their skills to analyze legal issues, stimulate their interests in law learning, and make a significant effect of teaching.