Find Your Teaching Zone

Tips to Improve Your Classroom Performance (Or Most of What I Learned About Teaching I Learned on the Slopes)

March 05, 2019

By: Henry Abramson, Ph.D., Lander College of Arts and Sciences

This video is a brief description of Lev Vygotsky’s concept known as the Zone of Proximal Development, an extremely useful idea to improve your classroom performance.

Thanks to Rob Wass and Clinton Golding for their great article on the topic, “Sharpening a tool for teaching: the zone of proximal development,” Teaching in Higher Education 19:6 (2014), 671-684.