- The concept of readiness
- Children can only learn what their current cognitive stage allows them to.
- Classrooms materials, subject specifications and ways of learning in class should match the stage and cognitive level of the pupil.
- Young children have to do things to learn
- Older children have to apply abstract thinking to learn
- Discovery learning
- Doing, rather than lecturing
- The teacher should ask questions, raise issues and devise activites
- The teacher is a facilitator, as the child learns individually
- Peer support
- Allow opportunities for unstructured and collaborative learning
- This helps the child decentre
VYGOTSKY
- Teacher should intervene
- It helps children develop their understanding and knowledge
- The teacher is the main person in the pupil's ZPD
- Spiral curriculum
- Difficult ideas are presented simply at first
- These ideas are then revisited at a more advanced level later on
- Scaffolding in the classroom
- People can advance a child's thinking by providing a support framework
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