Vygotsky's Theory Of Zone Of Proximal Development Stages

On November 4, 2016, at 3:30pm in the afternoon, I got the opportunity to shadow St. Paul’s third grade preschool. The purpose was to study child behaviors and link it to certain developmental stages. The experience was unique in its self because most of the kids in there were ETS. This proved as a challenge to communicate with the kids who 's English was broken up. Though through my observation I have learned that no matter what ;language or ethnicity a child speaks, they still go through the same patterns of development. One person who I observed was a girl, and to keep her identity anonymous, I will call her Alice. Alice is of Chinese background and spoke little to no english. She was a very shy and sensitive girl and this put the challenge of communications with her even harder. Though I was able to communicate with her through objects and pictures. She used her fingers to show me how old she was, she had just turned three. She was wearing a white dress with pink flowers, and her hair was in a ponytail. She was a very sensitive kid and and shy as well. When I first arrived the teacher …show more content…
This is the theory that the tasks that are too difficult for the child to accomplish on their own, can be learned through guidance of an adult or a higher-skilled child. I saw this when Alice went to grab a pair of scissors. She held them up with the sharp point facing the ceiling. When the teacher saw this, she immediately showed Alice the proper way to hold scissors, which the pointed part facing the ground. Alice then went on to show the teacher the right way to hold the scissors. Another example of this would be when Alice was trying to cut the paper. She didn’t use her thumb, instead she put two fingers in each of the holding slots. The teacher then showed her the proper way to hold the scissors to make cutting paper ore efficient. With a few tries, Alice was a