Modeling and Scaffolding

               

1.       1. Discuss how Modeling and Scaffolding affect in the child’s learning progress.10 pts.

In a child’s learning progress, Vygotsky strongly believed in the essential role of modeling and scaffolding in learning experience and development of our learners. Scaffolding itself, at its most basic implications means preparing learners to perform a learning task successfully by showing them how to do the task. It make sense that as the appropriate assistance given by the teacher to accomplish a task, the maximum potential attainability the learning progress would become. To effect quality learning for the child, a teacher or an advance adult should create an appropriate scaffold, the adult must gain and keep the child’s attention, model the best strategy, and adapt the whole process to the child’s appropriate developmental level. For instance, parents of a beginning reader provide a scaffold when they help him sound out new words, this judicious assistance shows how a right amount of guidance can allow the child to accomplish a task. As a teacher, I believe that we must scaffold in such a way that the gap is bridged between the learner’s current skill level to its desired skill level. As learners become more proficient, able to complete a task by means of scaffolding do highly effect learning progress of a child.

                “I want to become my teacher! He’s my inspiration in achieving my goals in life…” Modeling or changes in a child that result from observing the actions of others. In simpler words, it’s the imitation of the performance of an expert by the learner. Learning develops as learner examines and observe others and gradually acquires learning opportunities to imitate their role models. In its social context, modeling is a key element in developing social cognitive skills of a child. Peers, teacher, or parents influence the acquisition of knowledge behaviors of our students. By serving as role models, children are able to follow their actions and wanted to be like them. The stronger that they will like such model, the greater the impact of learning would become. Our learners have internalized what values they get through social interactions, as children age, they learn to reinforce to a model or paying attention to his/her behavior, either to praise or share in it. Students develop greater efficacy for a task when they see others like themselves performing the task successfully. Thus, modeling stressed the great impact which weighs strikingly on the shoulders for all teachers--- and that is being a role model to our learners.

                Clearly, in order to achieve the highest level of development possible, as an educator I would advise that parents expose their children to a variety of social situations, since each interaction is considered a learning experience. It is especially important to introduce children to people and ideas that operate above their current knowledge level, giving them access to new ideas and concepts. Guiding children to look for answers by imitating what they see in others, listening to instruction and working as part of a group all provide opportunities for them to expand their current base of knowledge.