Name: Self-Determination Theory Slides + Student Worksheet
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About this resource

What's inside this resource

Without a doubt, history is a topic that can be easily overlooked by our students. Sometimes, it can be difficult for them to make connections with the past in a way that makes sense to them. Being able to provide students with meaningful resources is the best way to get over this learning curve. Whenever you have a social studies topic to introduce or review, you want to find engaging products that you know your students will be able to learn from. Within my store, you will find a plethora of social studies resources to utilize with your students.

What You Get:

This is a set of Self-Determination Theory Slides + Student Worksheet Resource. There are 25 slides in the presentation and 2 pages for the student work, which is an editable Word document.

The presentation will give students the opportunity to identify basic principles of self-determination theory in order to better understand the science of motivation in their life and in other’s lives.

The worksheet will allow students to write as they follow along with the presentation and video. This gives them a chance to follow up on what they have learned.

How To Implement This Resource:

You should print off enough copies of the lecture notes for each student to have, so they can make notes on it as they follow along with the presentation. As students work from slide-to-slide learning about the self-determination theory, look for opportunities to engage them.

Engagement may look like:

-- Having them discuss which principle of self-determination theory resonates with them most

-- Doing a quick write about the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation

-- Having a small group discussion about which type of motivator motivates them the most

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What's included

A two-page student worksheet (SDT Worksheet.docx) with boxed note space for what the theory is and where it came from, the three major aspects, personal examples of each, and an intrinsic-versus-extrinsic comparison
A closing worksheet section: "record your thoughts on how self-determination theory can be applied in school, the workplace, and more generally in our lives"
A twenty-five-slide presentation (Self-Determination Theory Slides.pptx) whose title slide describes it as "Class slides, videos, and student worksheet on basic tenets of self-determination theory and its applications"
A goal slide and a six-point agenda slide setting out the lesson's sequence
A history section crediting 1970s motivation research and Deci and Ryan's "Self-Determination and Intrinsic Motivation in Human Behavior"
Paired slides for each of the three needs: a definition slide and an "in action" slide for autonomy, competence and relatedness
Three application slides ending in open questions about school, work and life
Definition slides for intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, a takeaways divider, and a closing Ralph Waldo Emerson quotation

Resource types: Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Identify the basic principles of self-determination theory in order to understand motivation in one's own life and in other people's
Define autonomy, competence and relatedness in one's own words rather than by copying the slide
Recognise each of the three needs in a remembered episode from one's own experience
Distinguish intrinsic from extrinsic motivation and give examples of each
Apply the three needs to school, the workplace and life more generally

Teaching tips

The worksheet's boxes follow the deck's agenda in order, so it can be handed out at the start and filled in as each section arrives rather than collected afterwards
The three "in action" slides carry the concrete examples - choices and motivation, the weightlifter's one-rep max, belonging as a two-way street - and are the ones worth pausing on if the definitions land flat
Each application slide ends on an open question rather than a statement, so the school, work and life slides double as discussion prompts
The personal-example section asks students to recall a time they felt autonomy, competence or relatedness most strongly; give thinking time before writing, since a remembered episode is harder to summon on demand than a definition
The title slide announces videos as part of the lesson, and two slides in the deck carry no text of their own, so check what plays on those before teaching from it

Skills covered

Structured note-taking - the worksheet gives labelled boxes matching each section of the deck, so students write into a frame rather than from a blank page.
Defining in one's own words - the worksheet explicitly asks students to define autonomy, competence and relatedness themselves rather than transcribe the slide.
Applying a theory to personal experience - one section asks for a remembered moment when each of the three needs was felt most strongly.
Comparing two concepts - a two-column layout sets intrinsic against extrinsic motivation with bulleted space for examples on each side.
Transferring a model to new contexts - the application slides pose open questions about school, work and life for students to answer in the closing worksheet section.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How do the slides and the worksheet line up?

Section by section. The worksheet's boxes follow the deck's agenda in order - what the theory is and how it originated, the three major aspects defined, a personal example of each, intrinsic against extrinsic motivation, and finally applications in school, the workplace and life generally.

Whose research does the lesson credit?

Edward Deci and Richard Ryan. The history slide places 1970s work on motivation and behaviour first, then names their 1980s publication "Self-Determination and Intrinsic Motivation in Human Behavior" as the book that popularised the theory, and notes that research on it is far more commonplace today.

What personal writing does the worksheet ask for?

One section moves from theory to autobiography: students record an example of autonomy, competence and relatedness from their own lives, thinking of a time when they felt that aspect most strongly. The remaining sections are notes, definitions and comparisons.