Email this article Effective Strategies Employed by School Teachers to Promote Students Critical Thinking Skills
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Abstract: Developing students critical thinking skill is highly important nowadays to provide students skills in encountering various challenges in their life. Objectives: This study investigates the strategies employed by teachers during the teaching and learning processes to promote students critical skills. Methods: This study used a qualitative research approach conducted in a senior high school consisting of 50 teachers and 5 teachers were selected as the participants of this research. The data were collected by conducting semi-structured interviews and the data were analyzed descriptively. Findings: This study found several strategies employed by the teachers in enhancing students critical thinking skills. Conclusions: The Findings of this study provide implications to enrich the body of knowledge relevant to the theories concerning effective strategies to develop students critical thinking skills.
Keywords: learning strategy, senior high school teachers, critical thinking skills.
Abstrak: Pengembangan keterampilan berpikir kritis siswa saat ini sangat penting untuk membekali siswa dalam menghadapi berbagai tantangan dalam hidupnya. Tujuan: Studi ini mengkaji strategi yang digunakan oleh guru selama proses belajar mengajar untuk meningkatkan keterampilan kritis siswa. Metode: Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan penelitian kualitatif yang dilakukan di sebuah sekolah menengah atas yang terdiri dari 50 guru dan 5 guru terpilih sebagai partisipan penelitian ini. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan wawancara semi terstruktur dan data dianalisis secara deskriptif. Temuan: Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa beberapa strategi digunakan oleh guru dalam meningkatkan keterampilan berpikir kritis siswa. Kesimpulan: Temuan penelitian ini memberikan implikasi untuk memperkaya khazanah pengetahuan yang relevan dengan teori-teori tentang strategi yang efektif untuk mengembangkan keterampilan berpikir kritis siswa.
Kata kunci: strategi pembelajaran, guru SMA, keterampilan berpikir kritis.
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