Jessica Lahey
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877 appearances
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first heard Dec 2017
last heard Apr 2021
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And that's really, really important.
mainly because two of the most powerful teaching tools we have as teachers are these things called desirable difficulties and this other thing called formative assessment.
And desirable difficulties are like this magic
way of moving stuff from short term to long term memory, encoding the information.
And that doesn't work with kids who can't be frustrated.
It doesn't work with kids who can't sort of persevere and push through and look at it from another angle.
Um the kids who just give up can't benefit from desirable difficulties.
So
That's sort of the key equation there, you know, in terms of why over parenting, directive parenting, controlling parenting, whatever you want to call it, why it undermines learning.
All those little things we do to help our kids that make us feel better because we're saving, rescuing, supporting, loving.
Those things render our kids less.
likely to be able to push through and persevere and stick with frustration long enough to benefit from things like desirable difficulties.
Right.
So two things.
Um I did an article for the New York Times that called something like, um, when when kids say I can't and parents know they can.
And one of the really great pieces of advice I got in there it was really about um learned helplessness.
It turns out that our sort of default mode as human beings when faced with har long term hardship, hardship, you know, whether that's frustration or pain or whatever, is to kinda go helpless.
And it is a learned thing as well.
I interviewed Katie Hurley for that article.
She's uh uh she works with kids, especially kids who've been newly diagnosed with learning disabilities.
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