Teachers’ classroom management for motivating students’ creativity

Abstract

Creativity can be cultivated in the classroom by the teacher through classroom management. The present research attempts to study middle school teachers’ classroom management that attends to students’ creativity. We interviewed twenty-one middle school teachers of seven disciplines about their classroom management to cultivate their students’ creativity. We analyzed these interviews using a model of assessment of creativity in the organization as applied into the classroom setting. The research results indicated that the teachers utilized various methods to cultivate their students’ creativity, where these methods are related to the different components of the model of creativity assessment in the organization. Above all, the teachers used feedback from the teacher, strategies, and novel tasks as part of their classroom management to cultivate their students’ creativity. The teachers used the following methods less than the previous ones: risk-taking and group support. Freedom was the least method reported as means for cultivating creativity.

Keywords:

• classroom management
• creativity
• middle school
• teachers’ management

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

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Wajeeh Daher

Wajeeh Daher is a professor at An-Najah National University. E-mail: [email protected]