You need to design a program to teach 6 year-old children a new academic skill (for example, how to identify simple words). How would you approach this from Piaget's perspective? How would you approach this from Vygotsky's perspective? Design two programs - one based on Piaget's perspective and the other based on Vygotsky's perspective.
Describe the details of each program in an essay. Be sure your program designs correlate with specific concepts from the two theories. Include descriptions about how the two programs would be similar and how would they be different.
Consider these questions:
- Who/what would be important for the children to interact with? Why?
- How will the child learn and how the structure of each program foster the child's learning?
- What influences might your program include to promote learning?
Organize your ideas so that you have an easy-to-follow flow from paragraph to paragraph. Carefully edit your essay so that it is free from grammatical and punctuation errors.
Your essay should follow the following specifications:
- 1 page in length
- 1 inch margins
- Times New Roman 12-point font
- Resources are cited