If You Wanted to Take a Vygotskian Approach to Teaching

Multiple Choice

If you wanted to take a Vygotskian approach to teaching students a new study strategy, you would be most likely to:

A) Initially work collaboratively with students in applying the strategy, gradually withdrawing your support as they become more proficient in using it.
B) Explain how the human memory system works and relate the strategy to effective memory processes.
C) Show students how little they can remember when they use their current, ineffective strategies, thereby motivating them to learn the new strategy.
D) Wait until students are at least 11 or 12 years old and thus capable of abstract thought.