Abstract:

Problem solving ability is providing opportunities for school teachers to efficiently use their approaches and methods and to improve their creativity and it helps them to acquire higher degree of knowledge and improves their teaching, communication and cooperation and personal development. The results demonstrate that there exists significant difference amidst gender, age group and type of school of high school teachers and their problem solving ability and no significant difference exits amidst education and medium of teaching of high school teachers and their problem solving ability. The problem solving ability of high school teachers is positively, significantly and high related with transformational leadership of high school headmasters. Therefore, high school teachers should approach problems from different perspectives and find the best possible solution and they must assess the effectiveness of solutions. Besides, they should have all information that requires solving problems and they must also analyze the consequences of solutions for the problems.

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