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Principals' Attentional Scope and Teacher Creativity
Fri, April 22, 8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT), Division Virtual Rooms, Division A - Section 1: Leadership Virtual Paper Session RoomAbstract
The study examines an innovative model linking principals' attentional scope (PAS) to a teacher's creativity through the mediating effect of principals' ambidexterity and internal and external knowledge sharing. Data were collected from a survey of 833 teachers at 75 Israeli Arab elementary schools. Multilevel structural equation modeling was conducted to test the proposed model. Results showed that PAS is positively related to ambidexterity and its separate dimensions of exploration and exploitation activities. Principals' ambidexterity and exploration ability were related to the process of internal and external knowledge sharing, which in turn related positively to a teacher's creativity. Furthermore, principals' ambidexterity and both internal and external knowledge sharing were found to be the missing link between PAS and a teacher's creativity.