Describe how Vygotsky's zone of proximal development relates to teaching children in the classroom.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers should include the following ideas: (1) use a student's zone of proximal development (the range of tasks too difficult for children to master alone but that can be learned with the guidance and assistance of adults or more-skilled children) by teaching skills that are toward the zone's upper limit; (2) use scaffolding (changing levels of support) by offering just enough assistance so that a child succeeds at a task; (3) use more skilled peers as teachers; (4) monitor and encourage children's use of private speech (privately talking to one's self); and (5) assess a student's zone of proximal development rather than intelligence.
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