Teaching Students with LD and ADHD
Preventing Learned helplessness
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Posted Oct 15, 2009 at 12:09:06 AM
Subject: Preventing Learned helplessness
Hello everyone!
My name is Andrew, and I am currently enrolled in a teaching certification program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. This semester I am taking a class about inclusion in the classroom. I was wonder if people would be able to share their encounters with students experiencing learned helplessness, the techniques they used to help the student get over it, as well as ways to identify and prevent learned helplessness from even forming.
As my forum name states, I plan to teach mathematics. I personally feel that this is an area where a majority of people feel helpless. It is my goal to help students overcome the helplessness they feel when confronting math problems.
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geodob2
Joined Jun 12, 2009
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Oct 15, 2009 5:49:47 AM
Hi Andrew, and welcome here,
I'm glad to read of your goal to help students confronting maths problems. Which generally isn't addressed in schools.
Though I had to consider your term;'learned helplessness'?
Where initially, it suggested to me some intent from the student? But, it could be read in different ways, where it could also be termed as: 'taught helplessness'?
Which is very much the situation, where most often students confronting maths difficulties. Are provided with little if any support to understand and address their problems with maths.
So that they all that they know, is that maths is something that they can't do? With no explanation, other than coming to the all too common conclusion that; 'they must be stupid'. To quote them, unfortunately.
Andrew, I run a forum for the maths disorder Dyscalculia, which I would invite you to join and enter into discussions there. Where you'll find me there as eoffg.
http://www.dyscalculiaforum.com/news.php
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