Ms. long is a first grade teacher and uses cooperative learning in her classroom. in creating groups of students she will equally distribute high achieving, moderate achieving, and low achieving students so there is one student of each category in every group. based upon the skills of each student, ms. long knows that the high achieving students can help the modern achieving students, and in turn, the moderate achieving students can help the low achieving students. it is clear that ms. long is using the principle of ____ in her classroom.

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It is clear that Ms. Long is using the principle of scaffolding in her classroom.
This is a term in psychology coined by a famous psychologist Vygotsky. He believed that if we provide enough support for the children, while also giving them their independence, the children will soon succeed on their own, complete a task without our help. So here, Ms. Long knows that each of these students can help each other complete the task and thus improve their knowledge.