Piaget's Theory Of Zone Of Proximal Development

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Most of the time, music is seen as the extra curricular activity in schools. However, music is an essential aspect of education in the learning of attention, art, and cooperation. Music teachers face the challenge of bringing those crucial principles to their students. In doing so, it is necessary to use learning and cognition theories in order to understand how students' minds work and therefore adapt their teaching style accordingly. Although I recognize, Piaget's theory of schema and representation as well as Vygotsky zone of proximal development, I also believe that learning drives development, and that a growth mindset grounded in Gardner's multiple intelligence theory are essential for students' success. Our construction of knowledge …show more content…

In Vygotsky's theory of zone of proximal development, students are led to accomplish a task at a higher cognitive level that they would not be able to do without what Bruner called scaffold's. Scaffolds are anything that allow a student to function at a higher cognitive level. The most effective ones are: teachers, peers, and speech. For example, teaching young children rhythm in terms of quarter or eighth notes requires giving them a task harder than they are able. I would help them learn those rhythms with using words or names, taping on drums. In order to get familiar with rhythms, my kindergarten students will each say their own name in rhythm they will invent??? on drums. Using names they know and having the teacher model it before they do it is the scaffold in that …show more content…

Although we cannot use them all at once, we always use a few for each task. Everyone has those intelligences, at different levels. This theory allows my teaching to acknowledge all of my students' strengths. By exploring and exploiting their strengths in one area, students can improve their weaknesses in another (Dweck, 2015). In my high school music classes, I will have students with many different strengths. In a music theory assignment of an analysis of a song for instance, giving group projects that can include dancing or painting, roman numerals and strict chord analysis, and teaching it to the class relate to at least four different kinds of intelligence. Not only does that allow students to exploit their own strengths and strengthen their self-confidence, but it also also fits well with learning in small groups and learning from your peers. Students learn better in small groups: that avoids boredom and keeps students engaged, and each student is valued for their own strengths by other students. The challenge in this theory is not to label students and classify them as "the good at maths", "the good at languages", for both the teacher and the students themselves. Theories of learning and cognition facilitate the ???? of our students. Through schema and representation theory ?????. Eventually, learning has to be meaningful for students. Even if they do not wish to be musicians,

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