The study of cross-hierarchical linear correlation between the teacher's
creative teaching and the imagination of the teacher as well as the
school principal's visionary leadership
Abstract
This study aims to investigate how a teacher’s creative teaching is
affected by the teacher’s imagination and his or her school principal’s
visionary leadership and how the contextual moderating effects are at
play among the cross-hierarchical factors. The research framework is
divided into two levels, the individual level on how “teacher’s
imagination” affects “teacher’s creative teaching”, and the group
level on the impact of “the principal’s visionary leadership”. From
the teachers of 65 primary schools in southern Taiwan invited to
participate the survey study, 861 valid data were returned. The
demographic variables were analyzed by the use of descriptive
statistics. The cross-level moderating effects were further examined via
Hierarchical Linear Modelling (HLM). The results show that the
“teacher’s imagination” will impact the “creative teaching”
positively. The “vision practice” will affect “autonomous learning
and challenge-presenting” positively as well. Moreover, the “vision
feedback” plays a positive moderator role in how “creative
imagination” contributes to “interactive discussion and
open-mindedness”.