A Research about teachers’ professional development and personal growth after taking a in-service Master programs of creativity development.

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 創造力發展碩士在職專班 === 97 === 21 century is a knowledge- based era in which creativity decides everything.The Further emphasis on the creativity in school teaching means more and more challenges for teachers to face.Therefore,modern teachers have to constantly make themselves more profe...

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Main Authors: Chia-Chi Chang, 張嘉琪
Other Authors: Chao-Yi Cen
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/axw6f7
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Summary:碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 創造力發展碩士在職專班 === 97 === 21 century is a knowledge- based era in which creativity decides everything.The Further emphasis on the creativity in school teaching means more and more challenges for teachers to face.Therefore,modern teachers have to constantly make themselves more professional in teaching so that they might be able to get prepared for the new tasks. This research is conducted by qualitative research.Interview is included in this research,as well as the perspectives and thoughts of the participants.Besides,to investigate the three participants,teaching professions and personal growth after they went to in-service Master programs of creativity development,and to analyze in terms of Csikszentmihalyi’s argument of creation system,and realize how this in-service Master programs of creativity development might affect the participants’ creative teaching,teaching professionally,and personality after they joined this class. The major findings and the conclusion of the research are listed below: 1.The participants go for further in-service education because of self advancement.Therefore,they choose the field of creativity,which interests them the most,as their major.What affects the participants the most is the attitude that the professor showed in the class. 2.The participants are able to apply what they have learned to teaching and use creative thinking and creative teaching to inspire students and solve the problems. 3.The participants become better in dealing with professional teaching,making progress in the knowledge of creativity and the affection.Besides,the participants’ personalities are more mature as they have more elastic thinkings.