The Correlation between Elementary School Principals’ Servant Leadership and Teachers’ Creative Teaching Behavior

Cheng-Ping Chang,Hung-Chih Tsai,Dan-Dan Zhang,I-Jun Chen

doi:10.4236/ce.2016.79132

Abstract

This study’s research objectives are investigating the status and understanding the correlation between creative teaching behavior, and school principals’ servant leadership at elementary schools in Tainan City’s rural and remote areas. On research method, questionnaire was designed and the objects of this study were the public elementary school teachers within the Taiwan. Data analysis was conducted for the 723 effective questionnaires from 84 schools. The valid return rate was 85%. Research findings are shown as follows: There is positive correlation between school principals’ servant leadership and Creative teaching behavior.

Highlights

Humans have progressed from an era of industrial revolution to an era of information revolution
The overall mean score of school principals’ servant leadership is 3.961, which is rated as a moderate-to-high level, indicating that school principals’ servant leadership performance is perceived by school teachers as average-to-good and school principals’ servant leadership performance is good based on participatory teachers’ perception
It indicates that school principals had the ability to utilize different methods in school management, respect school teachers, think from school teachers’ point of view, understand each school teacher’s strengths, and collaborate with school teachers to promulgate and carry out school matters

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Introduction

Humans have progressed from an era of industrial revolution to an era of information revolution. Taiwan’s economic structure has transformed from being labor intensive to facing challenges in an era of the knowledge economy. In order to improve a nation’s competitiveness, the government of any nation faces the importance of creativity squarely. Schools are key organizations which educate and cultivate a nation’s future talent, play the role of driving a nation’s social and economic development, and shoulder the hefty responsibility of developing. How to cite this paper: Chang, C.-P., Tsai, H.-C., Zhang, D.-D., & Chen, I.-J. The Correlation between Elementary School Principals’ Servant Leadership and Teachers’ Creative Teaching Behavior.

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