This research aims to explore the rural EFL teacher’s challenges in improving students’ higher order thinking skills. The participant of this was one English teacher who teach Junior High School Gaung district. By using qualitative approach, researchers collected data employs non-participant observation teaching and learning process, interviewed teacher, took documents by collecting lesson plan...

Linking ideas, concepts, and disciplinary content is an underused yet effective educational strategy for fostering students’ higher order thinking. A body of psychological research on analogical reasoning can inform the challenge of encouraging higher order thinking in schools. We focus in particular on the teaching of mathematics and highlight alignments between a psychologically based definit...

This study examined the relationship between students working in a technology-rich environment and their development of higher order thinking skills. Based on a PhD thesis, which examined a greater range of relationships than can be reported here, this article focuses on developing critical thinking skills within a technology-rich environment. Staff and students from one school participated in ...

The high technology like computers and calculators has profoundly changed the world of mathematics education. It is not only what aspects of mathematics are essential for learning, but also how mathematics is done and what attitude towards mathematics learning is fostered. Therefore, apart from mathematical content, thinking processes and attitude are also essential core components for mathemat...