Communication Style | Teacher’s Profile (P) (attitudes/behaviors) | Examples |
Autonomy support | P1: More Positive: he encourages students, enhance progress and congratulates the quality of performance, type: | “You really progressed” |
P3: More flexible: *He lets students choose, like: *He gives them time to solve their problems themselves, the type *He engages the dialogue with the student, the type: | “Which exercise would you like to start?” “In your opinion, what is the right position to have get past this hurdle?” “So, what’s the problem” | |
P3: More explicative: *He explained to students the usefulness or importance of such a task or exercise, type: *He provides reasons to established limits, like: *He explains why the behavior is inappropriate, type: | “By doing this exercise, it will allow you to get/master…” “For your safety, make sure there is a spotter to the side of the obstacle before you commit to the workshop” “There, you could have hurt you” | |
P4: Closer: He respects the students, spends more time listening, tries to understand them, takes into account their opinions, feelings and timings, type: | “I totally understand that you began to be frustrated” | |
Controlling | P1: More directive (more demanding): He takes care of everything, imposes what to learn and how to do to ensure the realization of a behavior/proposed specific exercise, like: | “Do this”; “Put yourself there”; “You must”; “It is necessary that”; “Show me” |
P2: More pressing: he quickly gives the solution without really giving time for the student to seek himself, | “Do that to succeed, there is no time to lose!” “Let’s go to the following situation…” | |
P3: More negative: he is more critical, type: | “terrible…” | |
P4: More repressive: *He motivates by pressure, type: *Or he motivates by blackmail, type: *He resorts to t punishments and threats, like: *Or he promises rewards, like: *He creates a climate of social comparison between students, like: | “If you do not manage to do that, that is you really are good for nothing” “Do that otherwise you will have a punishment” “You will have minus two…” “If you do that, you’ll have a high grade” “If you realize the sequence of movements correctly, you’ll be better than Omar” |