Teachers were asked to rate when a child is portraying learned helplessness or mastery oriented behaviors in the classroom. This checklist is a reliable measurement for teachers who are devoted to helping their students reach their potential. However even if this checklist is a strength, this article did not do well at showing that it could be used to intervene with the cycle of maladaptive explanatory style, depression, and school success. Since teachers are with their students for extended periods of time they know their students well and therefore they could be taught to recognized learned helplessness in children. If the maladaptive explanatory style could be changed by guidance and encouragement, then children may be at a lower risk for depression and lower school success. If they paid more attention to this checklist that they used, then they would have made this article that much
Teachers were asked to rate when a child is portraying learned helplessness or mastery oriented behaviors in the classroom. This checklist is a reliable measurement for teachers who are devoted to helping their students reach their potential. However even if this checklist is a strength, this article did not do well at showing that it could be used to intervene with the cycle of maladaptive explanatory style, depression, and school success. Since teachers are with their students for extended periods of time they know their students well and therefore they could be taught to recognized learned helplessness in children. If the maladaptive explanatory style could be changed by guidance and encouragement, then children may be at a lower risk for depression and lower school success. If they paid more attention to this checklist that they used, then they would have made this article that much