In an unprecedently fast changing world, creativity is regarded as a source of innovation
which social organizations, including governments, companies, and even schools, value the
most nowadays for their future development. In the same vein, creativity and education is
now regarded as inextricable since education often affords the means of creativity
development. Therethrough, to ensure the success of creativity education, the role of teacher
is fundamental and important.
From literature review, the researchers figured out positive correlation among teacher
efficacy, job satisfaction, and creative teaching. Thus, this study examined the impact of
teacher efficacy and job satisfaction on teacher’s creative teaching.
The researchers analyzed TALIS 2013 survey data and finally used samples of 2178
teachers from 158 schools after data cleaning. The researchers used HLM(Hierarchical Linear
Model) ver. 6.0 as the data was collected in a stratified manner. The results present
significantly positive impact of teacher efficacy and job satisfaction on creative teaching after
controlling various personal and school level variables. According to the results, the teachers
with higher efficacy and job satisfaction tend to conduct creative teaching more in their
classes. In addition, teachers tend to exert creative teaching in schools where their principals
exert distributed leadership.
The result of this study suggest an implication that to enhance creative teaching in
schools, the government as well as schools should develop various political and training
programs utmost.