IMPACT OF TEACHER CREATIVITY STYLES ON SCIENCE TEACHER TRAINING IN INQUIRY-BASED SCIENCE EDUCATION
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The chapter is aimed at teacher traning in IBSE in relaton their creativity. The efficiency of teacher education is an essential issue in continuous professional development. The main areas affecting this efficiency are innovative educational methods, teacher training methods and personality characteristics, including creativity styles. The study is devoted to researching the roles of teacher creativity styles in science teacher training in implementing inquiry-based science education. The research was conducted in the frame of the European project PROFILES. Design-based research has been used as a research frame. Fifty Czech science teachers - participants in the PROFILES project were identified as innovators using Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory. A comparison of teachers' activities during training with characteristics of teachers-innovators was conducted. The research results confirmed teachers' innovative behaviour during the training of IBSE implementation. The main research finding is that the style of creativity (innovators) influenced the interest and process of teacher training. The research implies that it is necessary to accept the creative style of teacher-participants in training courses to be efficient. |