Creativity Levelof 21st Century B.ED Teacher Trainees In Chennai District

Abstract

The creativity involve  creating and evolving  new ideas  and it is nothing but innovation. It is one of thefour  learning skills (4 c’s) of 21st  century. The creativity  is derived from creative thinking.The  other   skills are critical thinking, collaboration and communication. The present century is more competitive world, characterized by rapid science and technological development , industrialization, privatization and globalization. The education system today is revolutionized with digital information and others. Each and every students need these 21st century skills to succeed   in  their life. To face the challenges from the students  that  the teachers are expected to equip themselves with these skills. With an objective  to findoutthe level of creativity  skill among the B.Ed teacher trainees that the present research study was conducted with selection of a random sample of 1200 B.Ed teacher trainees from various  colleges in Chennai district. .The creativity scale  constructed and validated by the investigators ( 2021) involving personal variables of Gender, Nativity and Type of management( college) was used to collect the data.The data collected was analysed using the appropriate statistical techniques such as mean, standard deviationand t- test.The findings revealed that there was significant difference  between male and female teacher trainees with respect to creativity.The study also revealed that there was significant difference among teacher trainees of girls ,boys and co-educational colleges with respect to creativity.