Zone of proximal development

Working in a group with peers increases the development of critical thinking through discussion, clarification of ideas, and evaluation of others ' ideas (Gokhale, 1995). I agree that working as a collaborative group creates an effective learning team, as your need to understand material, create ideas…

is just one of the many statistics that exemplifies how important the quality of teachers is to the education system. The major topics that I will address in this paper are development, learning theory, motivation, assessments, grading, and teaching strategies. Woolfolk discusses two different theories of cognitive development, Piaget’s and Vgostsky’s. Piaget’s consisted of grouping the events into three different categories: organization, adaption, and equilibrium. The first one is…

Compare and contrast Piaget’s theory with one or more alternative explanations of cognitive development. There are conflicting ideas to Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, the transfer of control from external to internal processes, regarding the influences and mechanisms involved. Indeed, psychologists such as Vygotsky and Siegler suggest that development is gradual and isn’t as fixed as Piaget proposes and that social interaction plays a greater role. However, there are also several mild…

different point of view on cognitive development from Piaget. Vygotsky sociocultural theory of development became a major influence in the field of psychology. This new theory stated that all students learn through social interactions and their culture; which its much different than Piagets theory. Vygotsky theory states that children learn through social interactions and our cultures. It was stated by Vygotsky, “He believed that effective instruction occurs within the zone lying just beyond…

5- Motivation Intrinsic motivation is the natural human tendency and habit to seek out, conquer challenges, pursuing dreams, and testing our capabilities and limits. When people are intrinsically motivated, they don’t need incentive or punishment, because the activity itself is satisfying and rewarding. Simply, intrinsic motivation happens when people do things just because they love it, and want to get better at it. While in contrast, when people do things for grade, praise, avoiding…

During my observation, I was guest to the classroom of Mrs. Peryn, a fourth grade teacher at Cler-Mont elementary school in the Fort Osage R-1 district. Mrs. Peryn is a veteran teacher, with more than a dozen years of experience with students. Where she remembers a projector and overhead, is now a SMART board flanked by a pair of spare chargers for student Chromebooks. Even with the implementation and ready interactions with technology, the inside (and outside) walls of her classroom are covered…

similar materials but does not try to influence their behavior. (372) But after a few minutes, S found out he could not read all the food by himself, so an educator came and helped him. This condition is a theory based on Vygotsky calls zone of proximal development, which refers to a range of tasks that the child cannot yet handle alone but can do with the help of more skilled partners. S could read words but he was still young to understand and read all the words in the story book, yet with the…

Copple and Bredekamp (2006) explain this idea of DAP and encourage teachers to meet learners’ physical, emotional, social and cognitive development and their characteristics as well as identify goals for children which are challenging but achievable. Bodrova and Leong (2007) consider the concept of developmentally appropriate to encompass things children can learn and goals that they can achieve…

There are lots of different international approaches and perspectives to children’s learning. Some of these approaches are old and some of these approaches are new. The theories have some similar points, however they do contrast each other too. Montessori Montessori believed that children should have hands on experiences to learn and, they should have real life natural resources to enable this. Montessori also said that children should have the same equipment and resources as us but in child…

competent and active character of their growth and development process. Aistear can clearly be seen in this approach through its identity and belonging aim 1”children will have strong self identities and will feel respected and affirmed as unique individuals with their own life stories” Aistear (NCCA ,2009) and also aim 4 “children will see themselves as capable learner’s (NCCA, 2009). Reggio Emilia approach had a big influence on the development of Aistear. Similarities between both are very…