Perceived and Observed Teaching Creativity of English Teachers in SMKN 1 Negara

Abstract

Teachers’ creativity is an important aspect that has an influential effect on students’ competence, however research on this particular topic is hardly found. This study aimed at investigating teachers’ creativity from two perspectives: From how they perceived and what they implemented in the classroom, and then to describe the discrepancy between the two Embedded mixed method was used as the design of this study which means the qualitative data was dominant than quantitative data QUAL (quan). Two EFL teachers of SMKN 1 Negara were chosen as the subject. Self-rated questionnaire, classroom observation sheet, and in-depth interview were used as the instruments. The discrepancy of two data were occurred. The investigation proves that the teachers rarely teach based on the lesson plan, teach inductively, conduct innovative learning by using technology as learning media. The teachers mainly focused on using same media in several meetings, conduct monotonous teaching activity.

The Power of Continuing Professional Development on EFL Teachers’ Creativity

“…One of the key influential factors that help teachers to move toward efficiency is their creativity (Mahayana, Artini, & Padmadewi, 2020) since nowadays critical thinking and creative thinking abilities are the main focus of learning (Beghetto & Kaufman, 2014;Narmaditya, Wulandari, & Sakarji, 2018). In second or foreign language classes, teachers' creativity is so important to win students' attention in the classroom (Triningsih & Ghozali, 2018).Overall, Beghetto and Kaufman (2014) define creativity as the aptitude to produce high quality, novel, and appropriate work; the ability to perceive the world in new ways; and the capability to make associates between unrelated phenomena to generate workable solutions, regardless of the level.…”

“…According to Johnson (2017), the interaction between teachers' and students' energies causes to generate the classroom creativity that such a classroom is created with teachers' facilitation. Thus, the creativity of the teacher is very important to involve learners in the learning process (Mahayana et al, 2020).…”