A study of influential factors for creative teaching

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influential factors and identify the key factors of teachers’ creative teaching. The study developed a Creative Teaching Factors Interview Outline as research tool to conduct in-depth interviews with 12 First Prize winners of GreaTeach Award 2003 in order to identify influential factors of teachers’ creative teaching behaviors and to determine from them the key factors affecting creative teaching. The research results indicated nine key factors that can affect teachers’ creative teaching behaviors, namely personal quality, thinking style, family factor, education experience, teaching belief, personal effort, motivation, professional knowledge, and environmental factor.