While playing dress up, the child can also play pretend games that allow the student to use what he knows in everyday life in his play. Another activity could be to play with clay. Allowing children to participate in hands-on activities while allowing them to be creative and imaginative is what Piaget's theory is about. Some lessons to teach children while doing these activities are to teach them not to be mean or judge another student just because they are not in the same stage as they are because everyone gets to each stage eventually. The disadvantages of Piaget's classroom would be that not everyone learns the same way, so it is possible that the tasks they are doing may be too difficult or not challenge that particular child's intellect. The Vygotskian classroom involved a lot of group work and other interactive activities. This way, the teacher would be highly involved and interactive with the students. They would be there step by step to explain the activities. While being placed in groups for projects, the teacher must pair two students with different intelligence levels. The reason for this is that Vygotsky believed that children learn through
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