Transformation...

According to Vygotsky, interpersonal interactions transforms into intrapersonal interactions. Vygotsky repeatedly emphasizes the importance of education as a social learning process that develops into an individual internalization. Moving from the social level, where learning is acquired in an external manner, most of the time from another intellectual. One of his prime concepts and examples is that "we learn with the assistance of someone else who can help us do things we can't yet do on our own." I have found this to be very true since I've started to work at the St. Martin de Porres site. Many of the students that I have worked with are just waiting for someone to show them how something is done. They just need an older mentor or tutor there to teach them about the life experiences and achievements they are yet to obtain. One of the greatest feelings I get is when the kids talk about the schools they want to go to in the future. One of the young girls I went to even told me she wanted to go to Cal! She said that all of the tutors and mentors from there were smart, she hoped that one day she would be like that as well. Like Vygotsky says, all the students need is assistance to get to where they want to be and what they cannot yet attain by themselves. Interpersonal goals and learning processes are then transformed into intrapersonal scaffolding. =)