Many educational innovations, such as dynamic assessment and FCL classrooms, have incorporated insights about learning and development from the sociocultural theories. Choose either dynamic assessment or FCL

Define your choice, and discuss how it incorporates insights about learning and development from the sociocultural theories.

What will be an ideal response?

Dynamic assessment examines children's potential for learning with assistance, rather than their individual ability. This incorporates Vygotsky's insights about differences in children's zone of proximal development. That is, two children may appear to have the same knowledge when tested on a static knowledge assessment. However, one child may be able to outperform the other when a more skilled partner is there to scaffold children's performance. This difference reflects real cognitive differences that a static knowledge assessment would miss. FCL stands for fostering communities of learners. FCL classrooms deliberately distribute expertise across children and then require each expert to share his or her knowledge with the rest of the class. This incorporates insights from social learning that suggest that children benefit more from interactions in which they work with a more skilled or more knowledgeable peer.