Learned Helplessness: 7+ Methods to Replace Learned Helplessness with Learned Perseverance!

How do you help your students' overcome learned helplessness?

Going from learned helplessness to learned perseverance!

Learned helplessness is a maladaptive coping strategy that is a response to failure, fear, and/or mental trauma. Students may choose to "opt out" to avoid failing, struggling, or the fear of failing. Students may display learned helplessness because they have learned it is easier to opt-out or let teachers or the parent do their work. Learned helplessness can present as lying, cheating, shutting down, acting confused, and/or physical/mental illness.  This can and does become a habit or learned response to all academic learning if no new coping skills or strategies are developed. Students need to adopt new positive habits, success mindsets, positive coping systems, and logical problem solving heuristics to develop learned perseverance.

• Use great literature that teaches stoicism, the path through strife and failure. Explore characters that have given up or won't even start the journey. Teachers, parents, and students must treat struggle, failure and setbacks as beneficial and critical to growth and learning, not to be feared, avoided, or/and banned in schools. Failure needs to be elevated to the greatest of all teachers. "I'm done/finished", "I already know", "I'm opting-out", "I can't", or an "I won't attitude", is never an option in their school/classroom. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!
• Teach students the only way to develop deep wisdom and understanding is through learning from failure and mistakes. Mistakes are proof you are trying. A growth mindset is not learned through a set of daily lessons, chants, bulletin boards, it is learned through repeated failures and a students attitude and response to those failures. 
• Use Kagan Cooperative learning structures. Students will put their learned helplessness on pause when they are supported by peers. 
• Use micro lectures to front load each small step, then teach and reteach each step of the system or skills being practiced. 
• While students are practicing and rehearsing skills covered in the micro lectures, use frequent catch and release teaching technique.  Catch and release allows students to try more difficult tasks because they know the teacher will constantly spiral through concept and skills. 
• Allow individual students and cooperative learning groups time to struggle, and yes even let them fail. Everyone at one point misunderstands, forgets, and interprets incorrectly and we yes all make mistakes, but if we rescue students they will not learn to develop more logical heuristics to solve problems.
• Teach students problem solving heuristics (logical decisions making). Learned helplessness is a maladaptive heuristic, a coping mechanism to avoid failure. Teaching students new problem solving strategies that directly replace maladaptive responses with new stoic habits that help students develop perseverance, resilience, and problem solving.
• Use SMART goals!
• Use WHOLE BRAIN TEACHING 
• USE ROLE PLAYING
• TEACH STOIC PHILOSOPHY 

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