Developing Higher Order Thinking Laboratory (Hot-Lab) to Promote General Scientific Reasoning of Student-Teachers in Physics Practices

HOT Lab–Based Practicum Guide for Pre-Service Physics Teachers

The purpose of this study is to develop HOT (Higher Order Thinking) Lab–based practicum guide that improves pre-service physics teachers’ creative thinking skills. The research method used 3D-1I model (Define, Design, Develop and Implementation). The subjects of this study are 40 students of Physics Education Program UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung. The results showed that the HOT Lab-based prac...

Developing a model to enhance elementary teachers’ ability to foster functional thinking and algebraic reasoning in elementary students

Abstract: This study explores the process of change of grades 3 to 5 elementary teachers, who participated in a professional development program "Algebraic Thinking: Foundation of Elementary Mathematics". Algebraic thinking as a functional thinking was the centerpiece of the program. The “Concern Base Adaptation Model” (CBAM) was used as methodology. The results of the study showed the signific...

Gesturing to Promote Higher-Order Thinking: Cross-Cultural Differences

Cross-cultural differences in teachers’ gestures during instructional analogies were examined in United States, Hong Kong, and Japanese mathematics classrooms. Teachers in all three regions frequently made analogies, but patterns of gestures differed in consequential ways. All teachers used gestures in a high proportion of the analogies, but teachers in the higher achieving regions, Hong Kong a...

Teachers’ metacognitive knowledge and the instruction of higher order thinking

The purpose of the present study was to investigate teachers’ declarative metacognitive knowledge of higher order thinking skills. This was a qualitative study conducted within the educational setting of in-service science teachers’ courses. The main finding is that teachers’ intuitive (i.e., pre-instructional) knowledge of metacognition of thinking skills is unsatisfactory for the purpose of t...

Novice Teachers’ Attention to Student Thinking