Question: What is the best way to incorporate these theories in a band or music classroom? The Piaget Stages of development seem to only apply to analytic components of intelligence. Nothing is mentioned as to how these stages affect the musical intelligence.
Answer to Question "How would Vygotsky recommend that you teach students?"
Vygotsky would recommend that you teach within the students' Zones of Proximal Development. This means that students should be taught at a level that is immediately above where they currently are in their education. If you teach at the students' level, their learning ability will not develop (learning drives development). If you teach too far above the students level, they will not comprehend what you are teaching and will not develop. If you teach in between, you teach at a level where the students are able to work a little to be at the level which you are teaching them, without overwhelming them with knowledge they do not yet have.
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Vygotsky would recommend more extreme diverse grouping to promote development. He was always an advocate that people learned and developed through social interaction. Creating more diverse groupings then allows more opportunities for development. Any kind of diversity is acceptable so long as it allows the students to develop. For example, age-based grouping is acceptable if you are pairing a first-grader and a third-grader, but not as well with a seventh-grader and a first-grader. Cultural grouping would also work well, as long as students were able to do simple things together, such as speak the same language. Grouping students with ability levels that are grossly unalike is less likely to stimulate development in these cases.
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