Employment of Creative Thinking Skills by Preschool Teachers at Schools of Qanfada District

Abstract

This study sought to identify the practice degree of creative thinking

skills by kindergarten school teachers (N=206) within Qanfada School

District. Participants were 80 female teachers selected randomly during

the second semester of the academic year 2013/ 2014. To achieve the goals

of the study, a 49- item Creative Thinking Scale distributed on five domains

was developed. Results showed high employment degree of creative

thinking skills on the overall instrument excluding originality which

was moderately employed. Differences were in favor of fluency skill for

teachers holding Diplomas compared with holder of Bachelors. However،

there were no differences in employment of all skills on creative thinking

scale regarding educational qualifications and experiences, whereas

differences were found in employment of the elaboration skill related to

specialization, with differences in favor of female teachers graduated

with literary certificates in comparisons with those with child education

qualifications. Finally, there were no differences in the employment of

all skills on creative thinking skills scale related to specialization. This

study recommends recruiting female teachers specialized in Children

Education