This study investigated the perception of school principals regarding factors that hamper teachers to promote the development of student’s creativity and strategies that the school principal could use to support teachers in the promotion of creativity in the classroom. The participants were 118 school principals from public and private schools, who completed a checklist of obstacles to creativity in the classroom and four open questions. The most frequent obstacles pointed out were teachers’ lack of knowledge of pedagogical practices to favor the development of students’ creativity and teacher's lack of enthusiasm. Guidance, support and incentive to teachers were the most frequently pointed out procedures to assist the teacher in fostering the creativity of their students.
creativity; school principal; teaching practices