(560)RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEACHERS' CLASSROOM PRACTICES AND LEARNING ENGAGEMENT IN PRIMARY SCHOOL

摘要

The aim of the study was to explore how primary school teachers' classroom practices - autonomysupportive and structured teaching - are related to students' learning engagement in second grade inEstonia. We hypothesized that balanced teaching style results in students' high learning engagement.Primary school teachers' autonomy supportive and structured teaching were rated by two trainedobservers in 11 public school classes. Students (N = 224)learning engagement was reported by selfreportquestionnaire after each lesson. We found students' learning engagement to be highest whenteacher was balanced in autonomy support and structured teaching, rather than having dominance ofeither. Balanced teaching style, with positive attitude and flexibility from the teacher, supportsstudents' learning engagement in primary school the most.