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Learned helplessness can apply to both humans and animals. It is particularly applicable for our students, who may have LEARNED that they just cannot grasp math and/or science.

This is a great point, Connor. I wonder how students displaying learned helplessness behaviors compare to students we talked about this summer who choose not to learn. Could they be related? And how could we, as teachers, address this issue when it may be so ingrained in some of our older students?

Goes more in-depth on what is meant by "Least Restrict Environment" in IDEA. This article definitely answered some of the questions I had about working with students with disabilities

Hey class, this is a documentary that I just saw in Boulder, CO. The filmmaker just happened to be presenting the film at my friend's house the night that we were passing through. So I got to meet the filmmaker, see the documentary and a bunch of us that attended had a discussion about it as well. It's a little more relevant to our schools and society class (totally a conflict theory perspective) but I'd say it's relevant to EduPsych and anything related to education as well. This is the link to the video with English subtitles, but for those of you who'd like to practice understanding academic Spanish and a variety of South American and Spanish accents, you can just search La Educacion Prohibida on YouTube and you'll find the version with no subtitles.

Some learning strategies and teaching ideas for adolescent brains.

This is a video that breaks it down into more simple means for the students to understand how we categorize our memory when learning.

Just another resource for teachers out there... welcome to Reddit.