Development of preschool teachers’ creative potential

Creative teachers and creative teaching

What are the key features of creative teachers’ pedagogical practice and just how do teachers teach creatively and teach for creativity, thus fostering children’s creative learning? This chapter seeks to respond to these questions putting forward a three-dimensional model in which creative practice is seen as a product of the dynamic interplay between the teacher’s personal qualities, the pedag...

Preschool Teachers: Who and With What Characteristics?

The purpose of this study was to investigate viewpoints of experts and teachers about individual characteristics and specialized capabilities of the preschool teachers. This research is descriptive-analytic that two qualitative and quantitative methods are used to conduct it. The population of qualitative phase includes faculty members of universities, PhD students, masters teachers in fields o...

the association between functional-emotional development and creative thinking in preschool children

the present study aims to investigate the association between emotional-functional evelopment and formation of creative thinking among children of 4-6 years old in mashhad city. to do this, 80 children and their mothers were selected from preschools of mashhad city based on cluster sampling method.  the level of creativity among children was measured through torrance test of critical thinking (...

Innovative Web-based Professional Development for Teachers of At-Risk Preschool Children

Research suggests the importance of professional development for teachers of at-risk children, and while educational technologies can be harnessed to help support teaching practice in innovative ways, such programs are often limited in scale. My Teaching Partner (MTP) was designed to deliver a targeted program of professional development for teaching quality, integrated with early childhood cur...

The Effect of Students’ Gender on Preschool Teachers’ Mathematic Interactions