This presentation is brief summary of the Methodology, Results & Discussions, Summary of Findings as well as Conclusions of a dissertation on Creative EFL Teachers & their Students' Academic Achievements. A Case study in Moroccan High Schools.
1. Conducted by: M’hamed Jamili Supervised by: Prof. Imane Nejjar
June12th, 2017
Creative EFL Teachers and
Students’ Academic
Achievements
A Case Study in Moroccan High Schools
Ecole Normale Supérieure
Université Mohammed V
- Rabat -
2. III. Results and Discussion
A. The Degree of Creativity of the
Observed Teachers
B. Teachers’ creativity and students’
achievement
C. The Common methods, techniques and
activities used by creative teachers
IV. Conclusion
A. Summary of Findings
B. Conclusions
C. Pedagogical Implications
D. Recommendations
E. Limitations
F. Suggestions for Further Research
Outline
I. Introduction
A. Problem
B. Purpose
C. Research Question(s) and
Hypothesis(es)
D. Rationale
E. Organization of the Study
II. Methodology
A. Data Collection Procedure
B. Data Analysis Procedure
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4. Research Problem
EFL teachers with low level of creativity reduce students’
learning outcomes in Moroccan high schools
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5. Research Purpose
The study attempts to show the extent to which creative EFL
teachers and the instructional methods, techniques and
activities they use impact their students’ learning outcomes.
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6. Research Hypothesis
Teachers’ creativity and the instructional methods, techniques
and activities they use increase their students’ learning
outcomes in the Moroccan high schools.
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7. Research Questions
Do creative EFL teachers impact positively their students’
achievements in the Moroccan high schools?
What are the techniques, methods and activities deployed by
creative EFL teachers in the Moroccan high schools?
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8. Rationale
The interest on creativity in teaching
To ascertain whether there are creative teachers in Moroccan
high schools or not.
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9. Organization of the study
Review of the literature related to the topic of the study.
Methodology (Research design, Sampling, Data collection
instruments, Data analysis tools)
Data Collection
Data analysis
Checking the confirmation of the hypothesis of the research.
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12. Data Collection Instrument /tools
Observation check-list (26 Items)
Documents (Students’ grade-reports)
Questionnaire (Info about the teachers and 5 open-
ended questions)
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13. The Population Sampling
Sampling technique:
Convenient Sampling (The available and the appropriate
population for the research)
Population:
Six teachers (over six years of teaching experience)
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16. Data analysis procedures
DA Tools
SPSS Statistics
To compute the general creativity value of each teacher
according to the checklist items
Microsoft Excel
To compare the level or degree of creativity of the sampled
teachers
To compare the level or degree of creativity of each teacher
and their students average grade.
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17. Data Analysis Techniques
Descriptive Analysis:
To analyze and define the common instructional methods
techniques, and activities deployed by creative EFL teachers in
Moroccan high schools,
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19. A. The Degree of Creativity of the Observed Teachers
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The Degree of Creativity of the Sampled Teachers
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20. B. Teachers’ creativity and students’ achievement
Teacher &
Students (A)
Teacher &
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Teacher &
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Teacher &
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Teacher &
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Degree of teacher's creativity 30 46 45 27 28 26
Average grade of students' achievemnt 12,26 13,13 13,52 11,89 12,23 11,37
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21. C. The Common methods, techniques and activities
used by creative teachers
Focus on T(b) and T(c)
Methods: (Ts’ answers to the open-ended questions)
Eclectic choice of methods
Inductive teaching
Teaching in communicative situations (CA)
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22. Establishing close rapport.
Providing challenging topics and complex learning situations.
Using Face-to-face interaction and communication.
Asking open-ended questions that require high order thinking skills.
Inviting students to think and express their opinions communicatively,
Reformulating instructions in different ways.
Asking open-ended questions.
Techniques: (observation and questionnaire)
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23. Associating the current topics to students’ real-life experiences.
Using diverse teaching materials that keep students actively involved in the
learning process.
Using face-to-face interaction and communication as means of developing
students’ proficiency.
Posing questions that require high order thinking skills.
Using real life examples to make students understand.
Enhancing students’ self-confidence.
Using different cooperative working structures.
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25. Interviewing activities
Activities that arouse students’ curiosity to learn more about new
things.
Activities that demands high order thinking skills.
Writing something on the board and then explaining it.
Forum discussions
Skype sessions
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27. Summary of Finding
The Moroccan creative EFL
teachers use a myriad of effective
techniques to establish the
appropriate learning environment
for their students, and to
accomplish effective and
successful lessons.
The Moroccan creative EFL
teachers exploit various activities
to develop different skills.
The scarcity of basic teaching
materials confines the level of
teachers’ creativity.
The Moroccan creative EFL
teachers can impact positively
their students’ learning
achievement.
Creative teachers diversify the
instructional methods, activities
they use in their classrooms
according their students’ needs,
learning styles and interests.
The Moroccan creative EFL
teachers use an eclectic choice of
teaching methods according to
the needs and requirements of
students, in addition to the lesson
type and/or the skills emphasized.
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28. Recommendations
The Morocco EFL teachers are highly recommended:
To do their utmost to maximize their creativity in their classrooms regardless of the
scarcity of teaching materials, particularly, in the public high schools.
To adapt or even come up with new teaching methods, approaches, as well as
activities that may better fit the Moroccan educational situation.
for further effective and creative teaching, to deploy different cooperative
learning structures in their classes to make students construct knowledge together
and develop several critical skills.
To implement project-based learning activities are certainly the appropriate
activities to make students develop the research, problem-solving skills, creativity,
cooperation skills as well as a sense of responsibility that they will undoubtedly
need in their academic and professional life.
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29. To use effective and creative techniques to engage all learners, high and
low achievers, in the learning process.
To communicate and collaborate with other EFL practitioners to develop
professionally and inspire from each other’s experiences and notions to
come up with new instructional ideas that might contribute to the ELT
profession.
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30. Pedagogical Implications
This study can help ELT practitioners in Morocco to identify their
instructional weaknesses and enhance their creativity as well as the
apropos way to choose and deploy the instructional methods,
techniques, and activities for effective and creative teaching.
The results of this research will be useful to ELT trainers, professors who
want to help trainees or students to achieve an acceptable level of
creativity in their future teaching.
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31. Limitations
With respect to data collection, field hardships have been
encountered due to the inability to find sufficient teachers.
Get the agreement from the administration of the schools to observe
EFL teachers in their classrooms.
Some teacher’s unacceptance to provide their students’ grade
reports as an instrument to answer the research questions. This
justifies the small number of teachers used in this research.
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32. Suggestions for Further Research
In the light of the previous findings and the research limitations encountered in
this research, it is suggested to the ELT practitioners, trainees and students to
conduct further research on the following areas:
A large-scale study is suggested to cover different levels (primary, secondary
and higher education) to investigate the impact of creative instructors on
their students’ achievement.
How can creative teachers trigger their students’ creativity?
The factors that confine teachers’ creativity into the adaptation of the
teaching materials available for them.
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