Teachers’ Perceptions About School Innovation Practices in Secondary Schools

Abstract

School innovation is the process of modern teaching by introducing new curriculum, new teaching methods and new ways of evaluation. School innovation is beneficial not only for teachers and students but also for the school administration, as the school administration will be able to keep a check and balance of innovational outputs in a friendly way. The objectives of our research were to study the school innovational practices at secondary level, teacher’s perceptions and the views of public and private school teachers regarding innovation at secondary level in Lahore. The objectives have been achieved by the responses of public and private school teachers. The nature of the research was descriptive survey and quantitative approach was employed. Purposive sampling technique was used to select sample of respondents and collect data. The close ended self-developed questionnaire was filled up by 200 respondents. Descriptive statistics was applied to get the descriptive information (frequency, central tendency, and standard deviation) of respondents. Moreover, inferential statistics (t-test and one way ANOVA) were applied to know about the differences of views among different demographic variables. At the end we concluded that private school teachers pay more emphasis on school innovation then public school teachers, so the government should maintain the standards of public schools as well by keeping proper check and balance. Key w ords: School innovation, teacher’s perceptions, public and private schools. DOI: 10.7176/DCS/10-2-01 Publication date: February 29 th 2020