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of open platform where you’ll be hired directly by parents and teach
children their children with more flexibility.
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In the first scenario, it can sometimes be frustrating to teach pre-
made lesson plans without having the ability to use too much of
your own judgment. However, these companies will have spent
thousands and thousands of dollars to develop their curriculum,

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and will usually have some underlying theory underpinning what’s

being taught and how the lessons are devised. Understanding the
overall theory behind the lessons can help to explain the choices
made and the activities selected.

With the second scenario mentioned, you’ll be responsible for

planning not just lessons, but a whole study plan. Being able to
leverage a particular theory can be useful when forming lesson
plans, but perhaps more importantly, it can help if you need to
explain your approach to parents.

Telling parent “I teach like this because it’s the best way.” offers
much less reassurance than “I incorporate part of Lev Vygotsky’s
scaffolding concept in my lessons as it helps students to develop
greater independence with ESL learning.”

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In this section, we’ll be looking at two prominent theories; the

first by Jean Piaget, and the second by Lev Vygotsky.

After covering these theories, we’ll compare them and see how
they can help ESL teachers in particular. It’s important to note that
both of these theories were developed over many years of work,
and all of their intricacies can’t be covered in a short course such
as this. This should serve as a springboard for you to do further
research into their published works online.

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