What Did He Mean By The Term Conservation (20pts)
1. Piaget presented his studies of conservation as evidence of the illogical thinking of young children.
a. What did he mean by the term conservation (20pts)?
a) Conversation is the recognition which remains the same in quantity if nothing is added or taken away, so the amount will stays the same nevertheless of changes in arrangement or shape.
b. Describe one of his conservation tasks and the kinds of responses that children in the preoperational and concrete operational stages are likely to give (30pts).
The response of the student might discuss the conversation of weight, number, liquid or any other task which is familiar to the students. The conversation of weight includes “the balls of Clay task”. The conversation of number includes “the pennies task” and the conversation of liquid includes “the water glasses task”. There is lack of conversation (e.g., “one has more’’), exists between the responses of preoperational children while concrete operational children know that amounts are still the same. …show more content…
Vygotsky and his followers have proposed that children’s and adolescents’ cognitive development is promoted when they work within their zone of proximal development and that scaffolding enables them to do this successfully.
a. Explain these two concepts (20pts).
a) The range of tasks that can be done by the children with the help of more competent and perfect partner is the “Zone of proximal development”. Scaffolding is that type of structure in which more competent and perfect individual gives help to the child to solve the difficult task successfully and accurately. When the child becomes more skillful, this structure has been removed. The response will include a solid examples of the these concepts.
b. Choose a topic or skill that is apt to be in the zone of proximal development for most students at a particular grade level. Then explain how you would scaffold students’ efforts and modify the scaffolding over time
a. What did he mean by the term conservation (20pts)?
a) Conversation is the recognition which remains the same in quantity if nothing is added or taken away, so the amount will stays the same nevertheless of changes in arrangement or shape.
b. Describe one of his conservation tasks and the kinds of responses that children in the preoperational and concrete operational stages are likely to give (30pts).
The response of the student might discuss the conversation of weight, number, liquid or any other task which is familiar to the students. The conversation of weight includes “the balls of Clay task”. The conversation of number includes “the pennies task” and the conversation of liquid includes “the water glasses task”. There is lack of conversation (e.g., “one has more’’), exists between the responses of preoperational children while concrete operational children know that amounts are still the same. …show more content…
Vygotsky and his followers have proposed that children’s and adolescents’ cognitive development is promoted when they work within their zone of proximal development and that scaffolding enables them to do this successfully.
a. Explain these two concepts (20pts).
a) The range of tasks that can be done by the children with the help of more competent and perfect partner is the “Zone of proximal development”. Scaffolding is that type of structure in which more competent and perfect individual gives help to the child to solve the difficult task successfully and accurately. When the child becomes more skillful, this structure has been removed. The response will include a solid examples of the these concepts.
b. Choose a topic or skill that is apt to be in the zone of proximal development for most students at a particular grade level. Then explain how you would scaffold students’ efforts and modify the scaffolding over time