SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHER’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS CREATIVE TEACHING

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.