Teachers’ Role in Developing Students’ Soft Skills: Creativity as an Example

Hicham Rahate Ellah; Noureddine Azmi

doi:10.59573/emsj.7(2).2023.10

Автор(и)

Hicham Rahate Ellah
Noureddine Azmi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59573/emsj.7(2).2023.10

Ключові слова:

soft skills, teaching creativity, Torrance tests of creativity, divergent thinking

Анотація

In the Moroccan primary schools, students spend about 1080 hours per one school year. This period seems of great importance but the outcome isn’t as it is expected. Despite the government efforts, these students lack the essential skills like reading or writing and other soft skills like creativity. Thus, the main objectives of this study are to investigate the extent to which the creativity of a teacher affects the students’ level of creativity and to compare the level of creativity according to gender and schools’ location. This study used a quantitative methodology to collect numerical data and to test the main hypothesis. It implemented Torrance Tests of Creativity (TTC) as tools. The participants are two teachers and two classes from two different public primary schools. The results revealed that teachers do influence their students’ creativity, students from urban areas scored better than those from rural ones and girls’ level of creativity is higher than boys’ creativity.

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