Abstract:

In recent years, rapid development of technologies and social changes have placed greater emphasis on teachers' innovative behavior, one of which is their use of new technologies in education to improve their work and teaching. Especially there has been increasing social and academic interest in teachers’ innovative teaching behavior with digital technology, which refers to teachers' self-directed behavior to integrate digital technologies into their teaching to improve efficiency in their work and student learning, and its influencing factors. This study aims to examine the structural relationships among digital teaching support of school principals, role stress, techno-work engagement, and teachers’ innovative teaching behavior with digital technology. A survey was conducted from August 21, 2023, to September 22, 2023, and the sample included primary and secondary school teachers in Korea. The final data of 956 teachers were analyzed using SPSS Process Macro Model 7. The results of research were as follows. First, digital teaching support of school principals had a significant positive effect on teachers’ innovative teaching behavior with digital technology. Second, teachers’ techno-work engagement had a positive mediating effect on the relationship between digital teaching support of school principals and teachers’ innovative teaching behavior with digital technology. Thirdly, role stress had a negative moderating effect between digital teaching support of school principals and teachers’ techno-work engagement. This study demonstrates the effects of school organization-level environmental factors such as digital teaching support of school principals and role stress on teachers’ innovative teaching behavior with digital technology through techno-work engagement. The study also identified the influence of role stress experienced by teachers in the context of teaching with digital technology. These findings can provide practical implications for enhancing teachers’ innovative teaching behavior with digital technology from the perspective of educational policy and leadership.

Keywords:

Digital teaching support of school principals, teachers' innovative teaching behavior with digital technology, techno-work engagement, role stress, moderated mediation model.