Coaching Fundamentals: Zone of Proximal Development by Ian French
A key challenge when teaching your team is how do you gauge the level of your sessions in order to see the most improvement in the shortest time. The Zone of Proximal Development is a coaching concept you can use to analyse and improve your sessions when you are teaching new things.
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What is the Zone of Proximal Development? A theory that players learn quickest when the difficulty of the task is gauged so that it is something more difficult than they can already do, but not so difficult that they can only fail at it. Players need to be stretched with challenges that are just beyond their current level, but not too far beyond it. With guidance and support, they can break past the bonds of their current ability level. Learning […]
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