DEVELOPING FUTURE TEACHERS’ CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS ON THE BASIS OF BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

Abstract

The article deals with developing future teachers’ critical thinking skills at foreign language lessons on the basis of Bloom’s Taxonomy. The notion critical thinking is concretized. The new roles of students and educators are described. The sample tasks for developing students’ higher order thinking skills are suggested. In the article, critical thinking is regarded as effortful, careful, consciously controlled processing that maximizes the use of all available evidence and cognitive strategies. The most well-founded model, Bloom's Taxonomy, was developed by Benjamin Bloom, a specialist in learning technology, in “Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals” where the researcher identifies three areas of learning: cognitive (Cognitive domain), affective (Affective domain) and psychomotor (Psychomotor domain). Each of the areas is focused on a particular aspect of personality psychology, has its own structure, and features.