Signature workshop · Supportive Social Learning
Supportive social learning is teaching grounded in Vygotsky's social-constructivist theory: children learn most through guided interaction with peers and adults. Armstrong's DECAL-approved training, led by Anna Camille Hampton, makes the zone of proximal development, scaffolding, and peer learning concrete for classrooms with children ages 2–6. Available in person across metro Atlanta, live-online, or self-paced from $19; live sessions run 1–8 hours from $35 per teacher and count toward Georgia's annual 10 DECAL clock hours.
Supportive social learning is teaching grounded in Vygotsky's social-constructivist theory: children learn most through guided interaction with peers and adults. Educators support learning by scaffolding within each child's zone of proximal development — offering just enough help to reach the next step, then stepping back.
This workshop makes those ideas concrete for classrooms with children ages 2–6 — leading with examples, then naming the theory so it sticks.
The zone of proximal development (ZPD) is the gap between what a child can do alone and what they can do with support from a more knowledgeable peer or adult — effective teaching happens inside this zone.
Scaffolding is the temporary, responsive support a teacher gives, then gradually removes as the child gains competence — a prompt, a question, a model. Language, play, and the "more knowledgeable other" are the everyday tools that make it work.
Collaboration, conflict, and talk-rich rooms are where young children build understanding. A constructivist lens — peer interaction and guided support drive development — turns daily decisions into intentional teaching, building a collaborative culture rather than only correcting behaviour.
The session combines video, role-play, and planning real scaffolds — teachers practise reading a child's ZPD and supporting it without taking over.
Teachers managing collaboration, peer conflict, and language-rich classrooms; directors wanting a research grounding (Vygotsky, the ZPD, scaffolding) under their staff's social-emotional practice.
In this workshop
Every session is hands-on and grounded in real classrooms — teachers leave with practice they can use the next day, not just vocabulary.
Quick answers
Short, direct answers to the questions educators and directors ask most.
Supportive social learning is teaching grounded in Vygotsky's social-constructivist theory: children learn most through guided interaction with peers and adults. Educators support learning by scaffolding within each child's zone of proximal development — offering just enough help to reach the next step, then stepping back. Armstrong's training makes these ideas concrete for classrooms with children ages 2–6.
The zone of proximal development, defined by Lev Vygotsky, is the gap between what a child can do alone and what they can do with support from a more knowledgeable peer or adult. Effective teaching happens inside this zone — challenging enough to stretch the child, supported enough to succeed. The training teaches educators to spot and work within it.
Scaffolding is the temporary, responsive support a teacher gives a child to accomplish something just beyond their independent reach — a prompt, a question, a model — then gradually removes as the child gains competence. Drawn from Vygotsky's work, it's the central skill in Armstrong's Supportive Social Learning training for early childhood educators.
Yes. Armstrong Educational Services offers Supportive Social Learning — a DECAL-approved training on Vygotsky's theory in practice — led by Anna Camille Hampton, in person across metro Atlanta, live-online, or self-paced from $19. Live sessions run 1–8 hours from $35 per teacher and count toward Georgia's annual 10 DECAL clock hours.
Formats & pricing
Live in-person is anchored at $35 per teacher per hour, live-online at $25, on a 1–8 hour decay curve, with a $280 session minimum.
$35/ teacher / hour
On-site across metro Atlanta and the Carolinas, 1–8 hours. Per-teacher pricing drops as the group grows; $280 session minimum.
$25/ teacher / hour
The same live session over Zoom — about 30% below in person — 1–8 hours on the same group + multi-hour discounts.
$19/ 1 CEU hour
Take it anytime, no live session — includes a downloadable workbook and a DECAL certificate on completion. See the self-paced catalog.
Add extra time for questions
Extend a live session with a group Q&A block: +$8 per head for 30 minutes or +$15 per head for 60 minutes. Framed as group reflection for the whole team — not 1:1 coaching.
DECAL CEU certificate
Add a DECAL CEU certificate to a live session for +$5 per head (included free in the self-paced course), counting toward each educator's annual 10 Georgia clock hours.
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