The Busy Bees: Vygotsky's Cognitive Development Of Children

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No child likes to wait in line or just gets restless, in the video they use a child centered activities in the Mighty Minutes jingles. One of the teaching strategies was the Busy Bees, where the children would buzz around the room and find the object they were told to find. This is so much more creative then standing in line. What theories best align with these strategies and environmental arrangements and why? Please give specific examples in your answer. I think that the one theory that best describe this strategy is Vygotsky 's his cognitive development, he believed children’s thinking is affected by their knowledge of the social community, he also suggested that language is the most important tool for gaining this social knowledge (Berger