The Influence Of Instructional Style Of Primary School Teacher On Their Instructional Behavior

The exploitation and cultivation of creative talents depends mainly on education , especially in basiceducation. With the deep development of quality education, the exploitation and cultivation of primarystudents’creativity is getting more attention increasingly. The crucial role that the primary school teachersplay in the basic education determines that the primary school teachers’teaching behaviors will directlyinfluence the exploitation and cultivation of primary students’creativity. Therefore, research on primaryschool teachers’creativity fostering behaviors, helping teachers transfer from imparting knowledge tostudents’ learning guidance, carrying out creative teaching, perfecting primary school teachers’creativityfostering behaviors are the key to expediting creative education smoothly in the stage of basic education.From the findings in the literature, teaching style, as the teachers’customary teaching methods, has aprofound effect on their creativity fostering behaviors. Self-efficacy is the dynamic factors of the individualbehavior and the teaching behaviors of the school teachers can also be affected by their self-efficacy.Accordingly, this study hypothesize that the general self-efficacy of primary school teachers plays anintermediary role between teachers’instructing style and creativity fostering behaviors.This study adopt questionnaire evaluation ,selecting eight primary school teachers who come from fivedistricts and three county of Zibo city as subjects by cluster random sampling and these teachers wasmeasured by Primary School Teachers’Creativity Fostering Behaviors questionnaire,primary school teachers’teaching style questionnaire and general self-efficacy questionnaire. 270 questionnaires have been distributedand 260 recovered, with 250 effective questionnaires. Whereafter, statistical methods such as the analysis ofvariance, correlation analysis and structural equation modeling have been adopted to investigate therelationship of the teaching style, the general self-efficacy and the creativity fostering behaviors.The conclusions of the study are as follows:1. The score of the behaviors of view judgment is significantly higher than the behaviors of inspiringstudents’motivation ,the behaviors of encouraging flexibility, and the behaviors of learning style instruction;the score of the behaviors of inspiring students’motivation is significantly higher than the behaviors ofencouraging flexibility and the behaviors of learning style instruction; the score of the behaviors ofencouraging flexibility and the behaviors of learning style instruction are of the lowest,and there is no significant difference between them;the behaviors of view judgment of the primary school teachers have thehighest score. Along with the growth of school age and the rise of professional titles, primary school teachersmake more and more creativity fostering behaviors in which teaching groups of primary school teachers inmore than 20 years show the highest level of creativity fostering behaviors and the primary school teacherswhose title is a small but high rank demonstrate the highest level of creativity fostering behaviors.2. The general self-efficacy of primary school teachers is higher totally. Primary school teachers’generalself-efficacy are not significantly different in the subject, teaching age, educational background, professionaltitle and gender.3. The dominating teaching style of primary school teachers is the legislative style,with the executivestyle accounting for the least. Different seniority of primary school teachers show a significant difference inthe local and conservative teaching styles.The teachers whose teaching age is 5-9 year is more inclined to thelocal teaching style than 10-19 years of teachers, the teachers whose teaching age is more than 20 years ismore inclined to the local teaching style than 10-19 years of teachers and the teachers whose teaching age ismore than 20 years is more inclined to the conservative teaching style than 10-19 years of teachers.Primaryschool teachers of different gender show a significant difference in the local and conservative teachingstyles.For the local and conservative teaching styles, teaching style of the female teachers scores significantlyhigher than male teachers.4. The primary school teachers’teaching styles, the general self-efficacy and creativity fosteringbehaviors, one of which is significantly related to one of the rest two; the general self-efficacy of primaryschool teachers plays a mediator role between teachers’teaching style and creativity fostering behaviors.