Attitude of Secondary School Teachers Towards Creative Teaching

Creative teaching has become an important aspect of school education because it provides teachers with opportunities to move beyond routine methods and create learning experiences that encourage curiosity, participation, originality and independent thinking. Teachers' attitudes towards creative teaching are therefore important for understanding their readiness to adopt creative approaches in classroom practice. The present study examined the attitude of secondary school teachers towards creative teaching in Angul, Odisha. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. A sample of 50 secondary school teachers was selected through stratified random sampling. The Attitude Scale of Creative Teaching (ASCT) developed by R. P. Shukla (2012) was used for data collection. The data were analysed using mean, standard deviation and independent-samples t-test. The overall mean attitude score was 128.12 with a standard deviation of 11.39. The comparison by gender showed that male teachers obtained a mean score of 129.08 and female teachers obtained a mean score of 127.16. The difference was not statistically significant, t(48) = 0.592, p = .556. Similarly, teachers having up to 10 years of teaching experience obtained a mean score of 128.04, while those having more than 10 years of experience obtained a mean score of 128.20. The difference was not statistically significant, t(48) = -0.049, p = .961. Thus, the findings indicate that gender and teaching experience were not associated with statistically significant differences in teachers' attitude towards creative teaching in the present sample. The findings highlight the importance of creating professional environments in which teachers can explore, experiment and use creative approaches in classroom teaching.