Level of the Pioneering Centers’ Teachers’ Practice of Creative Thinking Skills: (A Comparative Study: As-Salt Pioneering Center and Bani Obeid’s Pioneering Center)

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the level of the pioneering centers’ teachers’ practice of  creative thinking methods in teaching their students. The sample of the study consisted of  26 male and female teachers from As-Salt Pioneering Center and Bani Obeid Pioneering Center  for the academic year 2012-2013. And to achieve the objective of the study, the researcher distributed a questionnaire to the sample after its reliability and validity had been asserted . The results showed the teachers’ estimations’ level  of  As-Salt pioneering center was high  while the teachers’ estimations’ level  of  Bani Obeid pioneering center in using creative thinking skills was moderate . The results also showed  statistically significant differences  at the level of significance (a=0.05) between means of the estimations of the teachers’ practice in both pioneering centers of  creative thinking methods according to the total degree and to all sub fields in favor of As-Salt pioneering center.

Key words:  creative thinking; teachers of the pioneering centers; students of the pioneering centers.