IDAINILAIPPALLI TAMILAASIRIYARKALIN KADRAL KARPITTHALIL NUNNAAIVU CHINTHANAITHIRAN [CRITICAL THINKING IN TEACHING AND LEARNING SESSION AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL TAMIL TEACHERS

Abstract

The research paper is entitled as “Critical Thinking in Teaching and Learning session among Secondary school Tamil Teachers”. This research consists of two objectives. First, to identify the use of critical thinking in teaching and learning session among Tamil teachers. Second, to identify the techniques to implement critical thinking in teaching and learning among Tamil teachers. Therefore, I have chosen an urban secondary school at Kuala Langat, Selangor as my research area for this research. Researcher also chooses 5 Tamil teachers consists of one senior assistant dan 2 form 2 teachers and 2 form 4 teachers as research's sample. The types of methods used to collect data in this research are Interview, Questionnaire and also Observation. Besides that, Quantitative and Qualitative analysis methods were used to analysis the data obtained in this research. As a Researcher I have used Bloom’s Theory for better results in this research. By using Interview and Questionnaire instruments, researcher had collected data for the first objective while done observation for second objective. Most of the teachers used Question & Answer (Q&A) and I-Think maps methods to improve critical thinking among the students.