Attitudes of American Teachers Preparing to Become Administrators toward Teaching Creative Strategies英文文献资料.docVIP

Creative Education 2012. Vol.3, No.1, 24-29 Published Online February 2012 in SciRes (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ce) /10.4236/ce.2012.31004 Attitudes of American Teachers Preparing to Become Administrators toward Teaching Creative Strategies Climetine Clayburn, Stu Ervay, Nancy Albrecht Department of School Leadership/Middle and Secondary Teacher Education, Emporia State University, Emporia, USA Email: cclaybur@ Received October 30 , 2011; revised November 24 , 2011; accepted December 10 , 2011 th th th This article presents findings of a study to determine attitudes of American teachers enrolled in graduate human relations and supervision and teacher evaluation courses taken as part of a program preparing them to become school administrators. They were given instruction on the New Bloom’s Taxonomy and asked to consider the Bill of Rights for the Planet as a possible catalyst for the teaching of creativity; they were then asked to provide their re-actions to these guiding research questions: 1) To what extent are currently mandated or suggested curriculums allowing the teaching of creativity in their respective grade levels or subjects? 2) How would they assist teachers under their supervision, once becoming administrators, to structure local curriculums and lessons to include the teaching of creative solutions to issues? Sub-re- search questions included: 1) How would you define creativity in teaching? 2) What do you consider to be barriers to creativity? 3) As a future school administrator, what do you anticipate you will do to enhance creativity in your building? Based on their responses to the previous mentioned prompts, it was concluded that teachers are not using creativity to a high level in their currently mandated or suggested curriculums. There was strong indi