Professional Documents
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A. An exercise in scaffolding
1. Choose a skill you are good in. I am good in singing nursery rhymes
2. Identify an individual to whom you can teach this skill. Somebody who will benefit from
scaffolding. A child will benefit from the skills that I will choose.
3. Break down the steps you will take in teaching the skill. I will sing the song first and then I will
make them repeat after me until they can memorize it.
4. Determine how you will use scaffolding. Describe the specific actions you will do to scaffold.
5. Teach the skill to the individual. As I teach, I also learn a lot of songs.
6. Describe how the learning activity went. The activity went well. It was hard at first but as the
time goes by its getting better.
B. Read the following questions. Recall your childhood. Write your answers on the graphic
organizer.
5. I cannot forget my teacher who used to help me when I am in trouble, she is Mrs. Cruz.
8. As a child, I can recall this big news about my mom having another baby.
9. The most serious challenge our family experienced was when my mom was on the verge of
death, all of us are crying but thanks to God he gave my mom another chance to live.
10. The most important thing that I learned from my elementary school was to work together as a
team.
From the Vygotsky’s Socio-Cultural Theory, I learned that through play, and imagination a
child's conceptual abilities are stretched.