Enhancing Teacher Autonomy Support within Flipped Classroom Teaching Mode

Teacher autonomy support makes autonomous learning possible and efficient. It's argued that the issue of teacher autonomy support is crucial to flipped classroom efforts. In this article, we offer a way of thinking about autonomy-supportive practices that suggests that such practices will work for flipped classroom teaching mode. Specifically, we propose that autonomy support can be manifested under the flipped classroom teaching context in at least four distinct ways: supporting learners with various strategies, supporting learners with inner motivational resources, supporting learners with team opportunities, and supporting learners with critical mindset in autonomous learning, so as to maximize academic outcomes even while fostering learner autonomy and innovation.