Abstract: Teachers play a peculiar role in the formative years of learners schooling, and their importance is something the society cannot undervalue. Teachers involved in moulding the learners into responsible citizens of the country are considered torch-bearers in educating and imparting knowledge to the youth. This study utilized the qualitative and quantitative exploratory research design. The interview transcript on nine school heads and seven teachers were used to develop the constructs and indicators to measure innovative teaching strategies of teachers. The scales developed were administered to three hundred nine public (309) elementary teachers in the ten identified school districts in Iligan City. The result of the investigation identified four factors to measure the teachers innovative teaching strategy namely: Critical Thinking (factor 1), Creativity (factor 2), Social Skills (factor 3), and ICT Skills (factor 4). The findings revealed the teachers’ low innovative teaching strategies is on critical thinking and ICT skills. The instrument can be useful in assessing the level of teachers’ innovative teaching. However, the newly developed scale be retested for confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to validate further the items.
Keywords: innovative teaching, teaching strategy, exploratory factor analysis, quantitative, qualitative.
Title: TEACHERS’ INNOVATIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES: SCALE DEVELOPMENT USING EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS
Author: RUSTICO Y. JERUSALEM, RN, EdD
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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