The Effectiveness of Collaborative Teaching on Resiliency and Transformational Teaching for teacher’s profession

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of cooperative teaching on the teachers’ resilience and transformational teaching. The research method is quasi-experimental using pre-test and post-test. The statistical population of this study included all third grade elementary teachers in district 2 of Tehran and their students, to this end, ten volunteer teachers who were willing to attend training courses were selected and participated in 6 cooperative teaching sessions and 10 other teachers were selected as a control group and did not receive any training. The research tools were Conner and Davidson Resilience Scale (2003) and Transformational Teaching Questionnaire (Beauchamp et al., 2010). For analyzing the data, factor analysis variance on repeated measures was used. The results of the data analysis showed that cooperative learning leads to increase of teacher’s resiliency and transformational teaching (p<0.05). Cooperative learning approach, as compared to other teaching approaches, can have very beneficial effects on teachers, in particular to increase motivation and reduce their burnout, and can be introduced as one of the most advanced teaching approaches.