Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies, Online ISSN 2278-8808, SJIF 2016 = 6.17, www.srjis.com UGC Approved Sr. No.49366, NOV-DEC 2017, VOL- 4/37 https://doi.org/10.21922/srjis.v4i37.10588
SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHER’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS CREATIVE TEACHING Suman Kumari Katoch, Ph. D. Assistant Professor, Department of Education, MLSM PG College, Sundernagar, Himachal Pradesh.
Attitude determines behavior. Attitude towards creative teaching may find expression in the teacher’s behavior towards students and his methods of teaching. Teachers, who have a creative attitude towards teaching, are likely to vary their methods of teaching, encourage or stimulate youngsters to venture into the unknown world. According to Beghetto& Kaufman (2009) creative learning requires the creative teaching. Creative teaching helps the learner to use imagination in its various dimensions. Creative teaching is a mindset to enter into class consciously entering into what is call creative state. In this paper survey method under the descriptive method of research was used. All the secondary school teachers of districts Shimla of Himachal Pradesh constituted the population of the study. For the present paper a sample of 94 school teachers were selected randomly. Tool prepared and standardized Shukla was employed to analyze the attitude of teachers towards creative teaching. To find out the significance of difference between the various groups ‘t’-test was applied. The results indicated that school gender-wise and type of management of school, all school teachers do not differ significantly in their attitude towards creative teaching. Keywords: Creative learning, Teaching, Attitude, Imagination and Encourage. Scholarly Research Journal's is licensed Based on a work at www.srjis.com
Introduction Education plays major role in the development of any country. It helps an individual to realize his potentialities. Basically education develops the human behavior and cognitive aspect of the individual. Earlier system of education in India was based on the profession. In education, teacher plays an important role. The teacher as an independent variable is more active in this function. He has to diagnose the entering behavior of the learner. There is need to have attitude towards creative teaching among teachers because if they have positive attitude towards creative teaching then only they can create supportive environment through effective strategies that will help the students to grow. Attitude is characteristics of personality that illustrates the likes and dislikes of an individual. Attitude may be instinctive or acquired. It may be learned in environment in course of development. The kind of environment in which an individual grows has an impact on his attitude. In psychology, an attitude is an expression of favor or disfavor toward a person, place, thing, or event (the Copyright © 2017, Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies