Re: proximal development

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Hey, Maureen. Linda Dorn and Carla Soffos write about this in
their books. Apprenticshipe in Learning has a good basic
description of this and their other books mention this topic as
well.

On 11/28/09, NBCT wrote:
> On 11/22/09, maureen wrote:
>> I have a question how do you actually go about determining
>> your students' zone of proximal development? Thanks in
>> advance!
>
> This term comes from Vygotsky's work in case you were not
> aware of its source.
> As I undestand the term it refers to the learning the child
> has under control or near-control at a certain point in time.
> So, a formative assessment can measure the child's ZPD.
> Nearly any type of assessment you regularly give in your
> classroom can be formative. Or one of Clay's 6 tasks from her
> Observation Survey could be used, for example. Simply
> observing a particular child as he/she performs some
> classroom task such as reading, writing, math, etc. and using
> this information to base your next instruction in the
> observed curricular area for this child would be appropriate,
> for example.
 

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