Factors influencing teachers’ creative teaching: A systematic review

Abstract

Creative teaching is an important skill needed by teachers to carry out the teaching and learning process. Teachers have the most important role in nurturing students’ interest and creative thinking ability by implementing creative teaching. However, there are still insufficient studies that systematically review the existing literature related to what factors could affect teachers’ creative teaching. This highlights the value of this study that is aimed to conduct a systematic literature review on the factors influencing teachers’ creative teaching. This study selected articles using two leading databases, namely Scopus and Web of Science. To ensure that this study was conducted systematically, guidelines by Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analyses were used. This study found that three groups of factors influence teachers’ creative teaching, namely demographic factor, individual factor and organisational factor. There are two factors that have the highest frequency and dominant, namely self-efficacy and environment support.
 Keywords: Creative teaching, demographic factor, individual factor, organisational factors, teachers’, systematic review.

Unlocking Teacher Professional Performance: Exploring Teaching Creativity in Transmitting Digital Literacy, Grit, and Instructional Quality

“…This means that when teachers' digital literacy, grit, and instructional quality are improved or developed, they can increase teaching creativity. These findings confirm the results of previous research, which proves that digital literacy, grit, and instructional quality have a significant relationship with teachers' teaching creativity [13][14][15]89,90] and refute the results of some conflicting studies [17,18,21]. They can also inspire teachers to continuously improve their digital literacy capacity, grit, and instructional quality through various methods, approaches, and strategies, whether carried out independently on their own initiative or on the initiative and facilitation of the school, for example, through training activities or workshops.…”

“…The results of recent research show that teachers' professional performance is influenced by digital literacy [4,5], grit [6,7], instructional quality [8], and teaching creativity [9,10]. Other studies show that teaching creativity, as well as influencing teachers' professional performance, is also influenced by digital literacy [11,12], grit [13,14], and instructional quality [15]. These empirical facts show Educ.…”

“…Teaching creativity is also influenced by the quality of the teaching. Investigations conducted by Lowel [15] prove that instructional quality influences teaching creativity. Learning strategies that support creative and innovative education, such as design-based learning, problem-solving, and project-based learning, can also increase creativity in teaching [100].…”

A Systematic Review of Factors Influencing K-12 Teachers' Creative Teaching Across Different Forms: An Ecological Perspective

“…Cropley, 2018). Included This study partially supports previous findings, as teachers' self-efficacy emerges as one of the most frequently mentioned factor within the individual system (Pazin et al, 2022;Thurlings et al, 2015;Zainal & Matore, 2019) when not differentiating specific forms of creative teaching in statistical frequency. Both general teacher self-efficacy and self-efficacy in creative teaching are viewed as catalysts for promoting creative teaching practices.…”

“…Although a few reviews have examined factors affecting teachers' creative behaviors (Zainal & Matore, 2019) and influences on creative teaching (Pazin et al, 2022), they do not specifically focus on K-12 education or clarify forms of creative teaching. Therefore, this review aims to bridge the gap between empirical creativity research and end-user application by (a) constructing an evidence-based framework explaining how creative teaching is conceptualized in research, and (b) exploring factors influencing creative teaching.…”