Creativity of English Teachers and Students' Performance

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The creativity of teachers on the delivery of instruction is being challenged as they take simultaneously the implementation of K to 12 Enhanced Basic Education Curriculum. Creativity is an essential factor in thinking and learning which cuts across all disciplines. It is a central factor in driving the birth of new knowledge and innovation, and as such is a vital construct for the field of education.In this study, the researcher wants to determine how creativity seemed to stimulate, to engage, to motivate and to satisfy in a deep sense of teachers' fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration.

METHODS

The study used the descriptive method to determine the English teachers' creativity and students' performance. Teachers' creativity was assessed using The Guilford Measures: measuring a person's creativity.

The creativity test measure four elements of the creative thinking process: 1) fluency (how many responses), 2) flexibility (how many types of responses), 3) originality (the unusualness of the responses), 4) elaboration (the detail of the responses).

RESULTS

This quantitative inquiry discovers the correlation between 39 Grade 10 English teachers' creativity and the performance of 39 sections of students.

The findings revealed that 69% of the teachers are 30 to 60 years old, composed of 30 females, has earned units in Master's Degree (44%) has attended 10 and less number of relevant training (72%).

The level of creativity 36% of teacher respondents have a high fluency level, 56 % have a low flexibility level, 39% have a low level of originality, while 95% have a low level of elaboration, and generally, 69% have low creativity. The majority or 67% of the students perform satisfactorily in English.

The teachers' creativity in terms of elaboration and overall creativity has a near to moderate significant correlation with students' performance in English and a significant difference between the English teachers creativity in terms of fluency and originality when grouped according to age was found.

DISCUSSIONS

The results showed that there was no significant difference between the English teachers' creativity when grouped according to socio-demographic profile, however, the results manifest that in terms of age. There is no significance in terms of fluency and flexibility but yields a significant difference in originality and elaboration, it was concluded that teachers' age is an essential factor that determines the fluency and originality of their creativeness.