What Is Learned Helplessness?
Learned helplessness occurs when repeated failures lead a person to believe they have no control over outcomes.
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Learning
Learning is a process of acquiring knowledge, but more crucially acquiring the habits and tendencies to transfer that knowledge in personally meaningful circumstances.
A Visual Exploration Of Why Play Is Necessary For Learning
by TeachThought Staff We make lasting connections through play, but the role of play in learning is an idea that
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52 Of The Best Quotes About Learning
What Are The Best Quotes About Learning? by TeachThought Staff The internet loves many things. It loves cats, for example.
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5 Common Misconceptions About Bloom’s Taxonomy
Many educators have a mistaken view of the Bloom’s Taxonomy and the levels in it, as the following errors suggest.
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The Difference Between Constructivism And Constructionism
Constructivism focuses on how learners construct knowledge through experience while constructionism emphasizes learning by making.
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50 Learning Reflection Questions For Students
Were you an active or a passive learner? Of what you learned today, what are you most comfortable with and what is still ‘iffy’?
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Strategies To Help Students Retain What You Taught Them
By asking students to leave a little learning on a chair by the door on the way out of the classoom, exit slips are an easy way to reflect on learning.
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What Is Mistake Literacy? The Research Of Learning Through Failure
Though it is perhaps not intuitive, Richland et al. (2009) found that error generation is positively correlated to enhanced memory.
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3 Knowledge Domains For The 21st-Century Student
3 Knowledge Domains For Teaching And Learning by TeachThought Staff Thinking in the 21st century is just different. That doesn’t
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What Is Cognitive Constructivism?
Learning theory isn’t generally high on the list of practicing teachers. For starters, teachers are busy poring over the classic–or
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What Role Does Empathy Play In Learning?
The relationship between learning goals & empathy may be unclear. What and why we choose to study are deeply human pursuits.
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The Pedagogy Of John Dewey: A Summary
Dewey believed that learning was socially constructed and that brain-based pedagogy should emphasize active, experiential learning.
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