CREATIVITY-NURTURING SKILLS OF PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS FOR 21ST-CENTURY CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
The primary purpose of this study is to assess the creativity-nurturing skills of Science teachers in selected public high schools in the second district of Misamis Oriental. This study used a correlational research design. Through simple random sampling, 40 respondents were chosen to gather responses using a 5-Point Likert scale with 27 items adapted from Creativity Fostering Teacher Behavior Index developed by Soh (2015). The findings indicate that most science teachers in the chosen schools were female, between the ages of 26 and 35, and had at least six to ten years of teaching experience. The findings also indicate that teachers at the selected public schools in the 2nd district of Misamis Oriental had very high levels of creativity-nurturing skill across the factors, except for independence and judgment, which were just high. Along with the findings, it was discovered that there is no significant difference in teachers' ability to nurture creativity based on age, sex, or teaching experience. Furthermore, the findings did not indicate any relationship between the respondents' demographic profile and their capacity to nurture creativity. It is advised that additional research be conducted while considering a bigger sample size, and teachers from other locations are necessary to generalize the findings of this study.