Teachers' Ability to Apply Higher-Order Thinking Skills in English Lesson Plan

Putu Suardamayasa

doi:10.36663/joes.v2i1.254

Abstract

Training students' thinking skills also have an essential role in developing students' abilities in the learning process. To achieve and train students' thinking skills, appropriate planning is needed between teachers and students. This article aimed to find out the profile of the teacher and the obstacles faced by teachers in making lesson plans skills and the process of higher-order thinking skills in the lesson plan class X SMK Negeri 2 Singaraja teacher. This research was designed in a qualitative descriptive research method. The subjects of this study were the English teachers at SMK Negeri 2 Singaraja class X. This research showed that the teacher knows about preparing lesson plans and applying higher-order thinking skills. The teacher can also apply and develop creatively the use of higher thinking skills to the lesson plan to support the learning process.

Highlights

Education can be defined as the process that organized socially and continuously transferred from the previous to the following generations (Nazief, 2017)
This study explores teachers' understanding and ability of the significance of applying higher-order thinking skills to lesson plans
Based on the findings and discussion in this study, several conclusions can be put forward in this study: 1. The teacher's understanding of lesson plans can see from the opinions and statements given to the teacher's perception response through interviews

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Introduction

Education can be defined as the process that organized socially and continuously transferred from the previous to the following generations (Nazief, 2017). The development of thinking to meet the competition over the rapid flow of information technology is required. Higher-order thinking skills are mandatory and needed to train students' thinking (Madhuri et al, 2012). Higher-order thinking skills can be defined as the thought processes application which can be used in the complex situations (Arif, 2019). The higherorder thinking skills need to be updated with the flow of information (Tikhonova & Kudinova, 2015). With the ability to think to be expected, the students can continue developing to find new things that are gained in the information technology competition (McKnight et al, 2016)

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