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Download full textSpence, Ian; Stan-Spence, Aileen – 1990
Learned helplessness is an insidious condition involving undeveloped executive functioning, lack of persistence, and an undeveloped sense of connecting new words or concepts into a web of meanings. Remedial teaching in most small-group, diagnostic/prescriptive settings encourages continued learned helplessness because students are dependent on the…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Helplessness
Direct linkOehlberg, Barbara E. – Corwin Press, 2006
Not all children cope equally well with the stresses and traumas life throws their way, and every educator recognizes that "deer in the headlights" look some children get when current events and past traumas combine to trigger a fight-or-flight stress response. No matter how safe the classroom may be in reality, trauma deactivates cognitive…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Learning Processes, Anxiety, Psychological Patterns
