title: Strategies to scaffold student learning: applying Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development.
abstract: Teaching strategies like modeling, feedback, questioning, instructing, and cognitive structuring are applications of Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development. These strategies "scaffold" student learning from assistance by others to self-learning toward the goal of internalization. This higher-order learning stems from interactions with those who have more knowledge than the learner. Practical applications of Vygotsky's theory to any basic nursing education program are presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg, PA 17815, USA. dsanders@bloomu.edu
authors.forename: Debra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sanders
authors.forename: Dorette Sugg
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Welk
mesh_terms: D019336:Cognitive Science; D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D011582:Psychological Theory; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*