Ms. Long is a first grade teacher and uses cooperative learning in her classroom
In creating groups of students she will equally distribute high achieving, moderate achieving, and low achieving students so there is one student of each category in every group. Based upon the skills of each student, Ms. Long knows that the high achieving students can help the modern achieving students, and in turn, the moderate achieving students can help the low achieving students. It is clear that Ms. Long is using the principle of ____ in her classroom.
a. psychosocial moratorium
b. accommodation
c. scaffolding
d. assimilation
C. Scaffolding refers to the degree of assistance provided to the adolescent in the zone of proximal development. In Vygotsky's view learning always takes place via a social process, through the interactions between someone who possesses knowledge and someone who is in the process of obtaining it.
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