The relationship between creative self-efficacy and creative teaching among teacher-students and primary stage teachers

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Teacher of Educational Psychology Faculty of Education - Zagazig University

Abstract

The recent research aimed to identify the level of both creative self-efficacy and creative teaching and to recognize the relationship between both variables among primary education teachers in Zagazig schools and teacher students in Faculty of education Zagazig  University. The basic sample consisted of (176) individuals including (79) male and female teacher students in Faculty of Education Zagazig University and (97) male and female primary schools teachers. Research tools (creative self-efficacy scale and creative teaching scale) prepared by the researcher were applied, and the results were: There are no statistically significant differences between teacher students and teachers in creative self-efficacy and its dimensions; self-efficacy in creative thinking and self-efficacy in creative performance, and in creative teaching and its dimensions; personal charecteristics, educational and instructional methods, and classroom affective climate, there is a moderate level of creative self–efficacy and its dimensions, there is a high level of creative teaching and its dimensions, there is a statistically significant positive relationship between creative-self efficacy and its dimensions on the one hand and creative teaching and its dimensions on the other among research sample, and finally creative teaching can be predicted by self-efficacy in creative performance dimension.

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