Adversity quotient and logical thinking skills of prospective primary school teachers

Abstract

A teacher should have a good teaching skill for making a better generation later. Based on researcher questionnaire before this research, teacher in school still haven’t teach a real concept to their students. Therefore, to prevent this phenomenon they need a good teaching strategy. Logical thinking skills and adversity quotient are the important things that they need to make the strategy. The aim of this research is to analyse prospective primary school teachers’ logical thinking skills and adversity quotient. In order to do so, we set up a qualitative descriptive method with 40 students as participant. Test of logical thinking skills about mathematics, questionnaire and interview given to them. The results showed that there are 15% of climber category, 72.5% of camper category and 12.5% of quitter category. The logical thinking skills of the students following their adversity quotient, the students that in climber category have a very good logical thinking skills, in camper category have good logical thinking skills, and in quitter category have a bad logical thinking skill. Based on the results, we concluded that prospective primary school teachers still in camper category and have a good logical thinking skill.