Question

When parents and teachers engage in scaffolding practices, they are supporting which of the key principles of optimal word learning During the intuitive thought substage of preoperational thought, children begin to use ________ and want to know the answers to all sorts of questions.

Answer 1

Answer:

primitive reasoning

Explanation:

Scaffolding practices of learning is a process of learning where teachers tries to add supports for the students in order to help them learning and supports in mastering the task. Teachers and parents by connecting a new lesson or topic to an already completed lesson will help and enhanced the students to learn the new topic more effectively by applying the already learned knowledge.

Children learn far better during they interact with others and in responsive context.

In Piaget's theory cognitive development, Piaget describes the cognitive development in a children into four stages --

• sensorimotor
• preoperational
• concrete
• formal

The preoperational stage develops in the child between the age group of 2 to 4. Here the child is not able to form any idea of anything and children use the primitive reasoning  to know he answers.

Hence the answer is --- primitive reasoning.

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

Education that focuses on the typical developmental patterns of children (age appropriateness) as well as the uniqueness of each child (individually appropriateness). Such practice contrasts with developmentally inappropriate practice, which ignores the concrete, hands-on approach to learning. For example, direct teaching largely through abstract paper-and-pencil activities presented to large groups of young children is believed to be developmentally inappropriate.