Content: Education can play a leading role in promoting children's development, but it needs to determine two levels of children's development: one is the level of development that has been reached; The other is the level of development that children may reach, which shows that "children can't accomplish tasks independently, but with the help of adults, they can accomplish these tasks through imitation in collective activities".
The distance between these two levels is the "nearest development zone". That is to say, the zone of proximal development is the difference between the level that children can solve problems under the guidance of adults and the level that they can solve problems independently with the help of adults, and it is actually a transitional stage between two adjacent development stages. Grasping the "zone of proximal development" can accelerate the development of students.
Practical significance
The current teaching reform in our country is based on quality education, and advocates the modern developmental teaching concept of facing all students and making them develop in an all-round way. This view holds that the essence of teaching is to stimulate students' enthusiasm for learning and help them develop in an all-round way. The teaching view advocated by Vygotsky's theory of the zone of proximal development coincides with it.
Vygotsky's theory of proximal development zone holds that learning and development are social and cooperative activities, and they can never be taught to someone. Suitable for students to construct their own understanding in their own minds. It is in this process that teachers play the role of promoters and helpers, guiding, motivating and helping students to develop in an all-round way.