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Using self-determination theory in the classroom

29 December, 2015 - 16:45
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What are some teaching strategies for supporting students' needs? Educational researchers have studied this question from a variety of directions, and the resulting best practices converge and overlap in a number of ways. For convenience, the best practices can be grouped according to the basic need that they address, beginning with the need for autonomy.