Rashmi uses a variety of tasks to cater to the different learning potential of learners in her class and often makes groups to facilitate peer learning. Which of the following theory supports her actions?

Lev Vygotsky is best known for his sociocultural theory and language theory. According to Lev Vygotsky learning is a social activity as he emphasized learning is an outcome social-interaction.

Key Points According to Vygotsky, it is very important for children to have social peer learnig. Teacher should make groups to facilitate peer learning in the classroom to make children's understnding more better and applicable.

• In Vygotsky's theory of Socio-Cultural Development, he states that the skills children learn first are related to interactions with others and they then take that information and use it within themselves.

Hence, we can conclude that According to Lev Vygotsky, for better learning of students, teacher should make peer groups.

Important Points In his theory, Vygotsky mentioned three key areas :

• Zone of Proximal Development:  It is the gap between the actual developmental level of a person as determined by independent problem solving, and the levels of potential development as determined through problem-solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers. It also includes scaffolding.
• Private Speech: It takes place when children talk to themselves. Children spoke to themselves as a way of guiding themselves through action.
• Make-Believe Play: Children use make-believe play to test multiple skills and achieve important cultural activities. In this, children learn how to act in agreement with their internal ideas, not just the external ones. Eg: Children used to play and act as adults like teachers, doctors, shopkeepers, etc.

Additional Information

•  According to Sigmund Freud, children go through a series of psychosexual stages that lead to the development of the adult personality. His theory described how personality developed over the course of childhood.
• According to Lawrence Kohlberg, Together with the development of cognition and social skills, children develop along the dimensions of moral values and reasoning. Children learn the ability of right or wrong. Lawrence Kohlberg studied moral development by posing moral dilemmas to a group of children as well as adults.
• B.F. Skinner, defined operant conditioning as the process of learning that elicits operant behavior. According to Skinner, there are two types of behaviors, namely respondent behavior, and operant behavior.