[Year 12 SofDev] Learnt Helpness and strategies to cope.

[Nayak, Jayanti S]

I came across this article on "Learnt helplessness " last evening which I wanted to share with you.



Learnt helplessness is a strategy for getting other people to solve problems for you. In the classroom, for pupils, these others may be the teacher, LSA, classroom assistant or other pupils.



In computing/ICT learnt helplessness can be seen in various ways. Sweet helplessness often manifests to the teacher as a pupil putting on a sweet helpless voice and declaring they are stuck. Aggressive helplessness manifests with a cross tone and the implication that they think the work is ‘stupid’ or they don’t get it. Being stuck is never a problem but if you ask what they are stuck on and the pupil cannot tell you or describe the problem or they give vague indications that they are stuck on everything then there is a good chance they are using learnt helplessness to get you to solve their problem. Similar strategies will often be used with their peers, tailored to make the problem solver feel valued, superior or pressured into helping.



http://www.ictinpractice.com/eight-steps-to-promote-problem-solving-and-resilience-and-combat-learnt-helplessness-in-computing-by-phil-bagge/



Ms. Nayak,
Info Tech Teacher,
Sunbury College, 30, Race Course Road,
Sunbury - 3429.

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