Teachers can also scaffold the growth of by: meaningful language Overtly naming/explaining activities of both children and teachers Provide context and visual cues for new vocabulary, ideas and concepts Check for understanding Teachers can support children’s emergent writing skills by providing literacy and drawing tools in many areas of school, allowing children to label construction work, enhance their dramatic play, or come up with other ideas. Children may also dictate stories to adults, or they may scribble and then their own “read” stories. The and last formal tactic discussed in is using shared Tools of the Mind activities. In shared activities there is social context where learning can occur within the ZPD (with a more knowledgeable peer or teacher assisting a child who is less knowledgeable). Learning also occurs through the process of communicating and sharing with another person. This can happen through talking, writing, drawing, etc. whereby concepts that have been internalized in a state” can be exposed. A state” occurs when a concept is vaguely “folded “folded understood. However, in the process of communicating about a concept the gaps and shortcomings in understanding can be more easily recognized and clarified. Another person’s perspective must be taken and thinking is expanded. Another benefit of shared activity is the occurrence of other-regulation. occurs when one person regulates another person’s behavior or when
Teachers can also scaffold the growth of meaningful language by: Overtly naming/explaining activities of both children and teachers Provide context and visual cues for new vocabulary, ideas and concepts Check for understanding Teachers can support children’s emergent writing skills by providing literacy and drawing tools in many areas of school, allowing children to label construction work, enhance their dramatic play, or come up with other ideas. Children may also dictate stories to adults, or they may scribble and then “read” their own stories. The and last formal tactic discussed in Tools of the Mind is using shared activities. In shared activities there is social context where learning can occur within the ZPD (with a more knowledgeable peer or teacher assisting a child who is less knowledgeable). Learning also occurs through the process of communicating and sharing with another person. This can happen through talking, writing, drawing, etc. whereby concepts that have been internalized in a “folded state” can be exposed. A “folded state” occurs when a concept is vaguely understood. However, in the process of communicating about a concept the gaps and shortcomings in understanding can be more easily recognized and clarified. Another person’s perspective must be taken and thinking is expanded. Another benefit of shared activity is the occurrence of other-regulation. occurs when one person regulates another person’s behavior or when
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