Abstract
Students’ thinking is an integral part of English language pedagogy. Teachers need the pedagogical competence to teach thinking effectively. This research suggests a program to develop the teaching skills for thinking of pre-service teachers (fourth-year college students) in the English Department of the Faculty of Education at Princess Noura University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The program aims to provide the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary for preparing teachers of thinking to invite, maintain, and enhance students’ thinking in the EFL classroom. A classroom observation checklist was developed to assess teaching for thinking skills, to understand the student teachers progress in developing such skills. The program was pilot tested on five fourth-year student teachers during their field experience. Data analysis and results of the pilot test have shown that the proposed program can be effective in developing the pre-service English language teachers’ skills in teaching for thinking.
Highlights
In today’s age of information, mastery of thinking skills is considered a basic requirement for coping with this rapidly changing world
A classroom observation checklist was developed to assess teaching for thinking skills, to understand the student teachers progress in developing such skills
The findings and recommendations of researchers and specialists in thinking-based learning and teaching have stressed the importance of providing teachers with various methods and strategies for teaching thinking
Summary
In today’s age of information, mastery of thinking skills is considered a basic requirement for coping with this rapidly changing world. Learning to think critically and creatively is a lifelong skill with broad applications both inside and outside the classroom. Thinking is what brings knowledge to life, what puts it to work,...what shapes it toward creative products and outcomes” The term thinking skills has recently become something of a buzz word in educational circles, and developing the students’ potential for thinking critically and creatively has gained prominence and wide popularity around the globe for the promise it holds for effective learning. U.S schools consider mastery of thinking skills a major goal of instruction in almost all subject areas. Fisher (2007) claims that critical and creative thinking is widely seen as a basic competency that should be taught, akin to reading and writing U.S schools consider mastery of thinking skills a major goal of instruction in almost all subject areas. Fisher (2007) claims that critical and creative thinking is widely seen as a basic competency that should be taught, akin to reading and writing
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