VYGOTSKY'S THEORY --YULI TATIANA BUITRON

According that I have been reading, Vygotsky's contributions have great significance for the constructivist theory and achieved that learning is not considered as an individual activity and otherwise be understood as a social construction. Reality, at schools and colleges is a bit worrying because in educational establishments traditional methods still dominate the pedagogical practices; for example, are used different primers with illustrations and archaic forms and only work processes of memorization and repetition that children doesn’t have sense. In this moment, I work as a teacher in primary school. Really, I feel very happy because I like it. According to pedagogy and didactics that have taught me in my process of becoming a teacher, I have learn many tactics to teach of a constructivist way for learning meaningful for the child. My practice is focus on social interaction because students learn more when working cooperatively. Also, I teach through images, songs, nursery rhymes, stories, videos and the main actor in the process is always the student.

In constructivist classrooms, unlike the conventional lecturer, the teacher is a facilitator and a guide, who plans, organizes, guides, and provides directions to the learner, who is accountable for his own learning. The teacher supports the learner by means of suggestions that arise out of ordinary activities, by challenges that inspire creativity, and with projects that allow for independent thinking and new ways of learning information. Students work in groups to approach problems and challenges in real world situations, this in turn leads to the creation of practical solutions and a diverse variety of student products.