Teachers - Reading Achievement (Lack of It, That Is) And Academic Learned Helplessness

A lack of reading achievement can be traced to many different factors, needless to say. In this article you will get a brief overview of academic and learned helplessness that is associated with poor reading achievement. After reading the article, I hope you will continue to do further research if you suspect that one of your students may be a candidate for this designation.

Academic learned helplessness is a condition in which a child perceives him / herself as a failure can not overcome the lack of ability or other factors nekontroliran.nekoliko characteristics of these students are listed below . As you're reading this, see if you have one or more students who show these traits.

NOTE: . Avoid the use of these students may exhibit some characteristic every now and then think about the student (if even one) where these features show consistently.

learned helpless children:

in the face of failure, trying to give up and seek to escape "think" about problems and spend some time looking for ways to overcome them does not recognize their own successes, and if they do, they do not perceive them as predictive of future success, they are seen more as a random occurrence consider their failures highlighted and predicting future performance (standards, such as, for them) do not believe that they can replicate the recent success view other children as well as more able than myself to see their failures as insurmountable (Diener and Dweck, 1978, 1980)

Now, consider some of your students who struggle in reading. If you take into account several characteristics that poor readers display that is shared with students with learned helplessness, and will be on the list:

low initial assessment of success less persistence than other children attributing failure to lack of capacity attributing the success factors beyond their control reduction in the expected success after failure (Butkowsky and Willow, 1980)

Poor readers (and other children learned helplessness) in order to avoid failure than to achieve success (Ryan, book, short, and Weed, 1982). WOW! ;! it really describes, not if you look around the classroom or reading group, you know you have children who will be working very hard to prevent not, but it seems to put little or no effort to succeed. If you 'achiever' yourself, it is difficult to understand this kind of behavior. However, if we look at the behavior in relation to research that has been done on children who are learned to be helpless , a then it makes more sense. Students who work hard to avoid failure (and will not do to be successful) have learned to behave in this way (and review it that way), they also believe that failure is really all they are capable of -. and it's something different would not be in their best interest.

So, the good news is, now you have some information that you can take to your adviser or other person responsible for the psychological care of children and their families. The bad news is ... you can not turn around the child (or young adults) academic learned helplessness in itself. need to work with the child, family, and with other people who interact regularly with students. Children are not born with. Learned helplessness (as they are not born with perfectionism, by the way) Both were created - starting in the family unit, and were exacerbated in the school environment This is a complex issue and it lasts. knowledgeable and dedicated team to address and make changes in the child's perception of learned helplessness.

As with everything in education, to learn as much as possible, so that the resources to help their students, their parents, and your colleagues. One resource that has always helped me with the child him / herself. Talk students always gave me the information I would not have otherwise. sample questionnaires and behavior checklist, you are welcome to access once I created and used.