The effect of innovative teaching method on creativity and academic achievement in social teaching lessen (considering the boy students of second grade of junior high school in Buin Zahra Town)

The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of innovative teaching meted on creativity and academic achievement in social teaching lesson considering the boy students of second grade of junior high school in Buin Zahra during the academic year of 90-91. To do so both test and control groups are needed. Therefore، focusing on control group، a semi-experimental method with pre-test and post-test is used. The study sample included 42 boy students of second grad of junior high school (22 students for test group and 20 for the control). Then، two classes for the sample size was chosen; in that، students randomly were selected for control (n = 20) and test (n = 22) groups during the time of social teaching classes. The pre- test of creativity and academic achievement was administered for both groups Then innovative method in 12 sessions (each 45 min) was applied for test group. then، creativity and academic achievement post-test was taken for two groups. In order to analyze the data، descriptive statistic method (mean، standard deviation) was used and in inferential part the covariance analysis of variance was applied. The results are as follow: Innovative teaching method has caused to increase the creativity of students. Innovative teaching method is making a positive impact on the academic achievement of students. Innovative teaching method has caused to increase creativity’s components of students (fluency، originality، flexibility and elaboration).