The relationship between teacher’s Academic optimism and using active teaching methods in primary schools of Bonab city

The aim of the research is to explain the relationship between teachers' academic optimism and the use of active teaching methods in primary schools of Bonab city in the academic year 2015-2016. The statistical population is the teachers of primary education schools in Benab city, whose number is 489, the statistical sample size is estimated to be 215 using Cochran's formula and selected by stratified random sampling. The data collection tool is Baird and Hoy's academic optimism questionnaire and the researcher-made questionnaire of using active teaching methods, whose reliability was equal to 0.72 and 0.87. Kolmogorov Smirnov test and Pearson correlation test were used to analyze the collected data. The results show that there is a significant relationship between teachers' academic optimism with the use of active teaching methods and all its dimensions (except for the indirect teaching method) in the primary schools of Bonab city.