Research On Primary School Teachers' Attitude Towards Creative Talent

21st century seeing rapid changes in science and technology and heated competition in knowledge, it is clear that developing creative talents is the determining factor for a nation's future development. Teachers are the key in developing creative talents since their concepts and attitude affect the actual results of cultivating activities directly, and there have been many verifying researches on the relationship between teachers' attitude and creativity cultivation abroad. Based on this, my research adopts content-analysis and questionnaire methods to inquire the present situation of primary school teachers1 views and offer suggestions for creative teachers' training.The dissertation contains four parts. The first part is about the aim, meaning and present situation abroad of the research. The second part is the implication of primary school teachers' attitude towards creative talent, aiming at the operative concept of creativity and primary school teachers' attitude towards creative talent, that is, attitude towards factors that make creative talent, towards environments that affect the creative talent, and towards the means on how to develop creative talent.The third part is investigation and results. First, methods and procedures, containing paper sampling and analysis, questionnaire designing and statistic. Second, results: 1. As to the components of creativity, the teachers concern more on creative thinking and creative spirits, ignoring other cognitive and personality components. 2. The teachers place more importance on the psychological environments for teaching, while the relationship and cooperative learning among students are ignored. 3. The teaching methods vary across subjects. The teachers try to design their methods according to the process of creative problem solving. 4. The teachers of higher formal school record have better idea than those of lower formal school record, higher grade teachers pay more attention to creative will and psychological environments than lower grade teachers. The teachers' attitude also shows a tendency from gradual enhancement to stagnancy, at last to stable development, along with teaching age. 5. Being trained after formal school is very important in teachers' self-evaluation of what encourages them to teach creatively. Third, discussion of the former results is followed.The fourth part is suggestions about how to make teachers understand creativity thoroughly. First, strengthening normal education, including improving educational curriculum and adding teaching practice. Second, stressing teachers' training, by providing learning materials, giving thinking courses and promoting communication between schools etc.