鹰架理论，又名支架式教学(Scaffolding Instruction或 Instructional Scaffolding)，指学生在学习一项新的概念或技能时，通过提供足够的支持来提升学生学习能力的教学准备。

这些支持包括：

当学生发展了自主学习策略，提升了认知、情感和动作技能学习技能与知识时，这些支持会逐渐取走。

Instructional scaffolding is a learning process designed to promote a deeper level of learning. Scaffolding is the support given during the learning process which is tailored to the needs of the student with the intention of helping the student achieve his/her learning goals (R. Keith Sawyer The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).