Vygotsky TIPR
1. I am doing my observations in the pre school class that I work in. It is an autism preschool class. In this class every student is so different in what they can and can't do. We have some 4 year olds that can read up to 2nd and 3rd grades vocabulary and some that can't even match their colors yet. In this situation the teacher is most often the MKO, occasionally we use our peer models as the MKO, but in most situations we uses teachers. Teachers will model exactly what we want the students to do by pretending to be a teacher/student pair, or just a teacher showing the preschooler what to do. To find the ZPD the teacher works with the student one on one and gives a lot of reward (token economy) to students when they are able to complete a task. We also do a lot of observation to find out the ZPD with students. We look at what they do well with, even just in play, and then at what point they get frustrated and that is how we know what we need to work on with each student. We w...