The idea of pairing instruction with a student is known as scaffolding, which is one of the core concepts of Vygotsky’s idea of the ZPD. The person performing the scaffolding can be a teacher ...

Scaffolding is based on Lev Vygotsky’s concept of Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). The ZPD is the distance between what children can do by themselves and the next learning that they can be ...