The term used for an adult or more-skilled peer that helps guide and assist a child
What is the more knowledgeable other.
Vygotsky passed away at this age
What is 37.
This is the title of Vygostky's best known theory
What is Sociocultural Theory of Development
the range of tasks that are too difficult for a child to master alone, but can be learned with the guidance of adults or more-skilled peers
What is the Zone of Proximal Development
Lev Vygotsky passed away due to this disease
What is Tuberculosis
This process defines what one experiences through culture or society becoming internalized and affecting the way one behaves
What is Cultural Mediation
Vygotksty applied this term to the changing amounts of support a child needs in order to master a concept
What is scaffolding
Vygotsky graduated from this University
What is Moscow University
What are their peers
This is an important aspect of a child's learning in their ZPD, whether it is to them self or with another person
What is social interaction/conversation
He attended this congress before being invited to be a researcher fellow at Moscow's Institute of Psycholgy
What is The All-Russian Psychoneurological Congress.
As teachers, we must know this before scaffolding
What is a students prior knowledge
The ZPD captures these skills in a child that are in the process of maturing and can only be accomplished with the assistance of a more skilled person
What are Cognitive Skills
This many books were published before he passed
What is six
In order to help our students cognitive development we must
What is challenge them