Fostering ways of thinking in learning activities of English teaching lesson plans at senior high school

Siti Drivoka Sulistyaningrum, Rosevinda Nabila Putri

Abstract


Recently, there has been a lot of interest in the 21st century framework by ATC21S. One of them is ways of thinking, which includes creativity and innovation, critical thinking, problem-solving and decision making. Incorporating ways of thinking into the teaching and learning process has been broadly employed, particularly in science. However, there is a lack of focus on English Foreign Language, particularly in English teaching lesson plans that incorporate the ways of thinking. Therefore, this study aims to explore the ways of thinking, principally critical thinking, creative thinking, and problem-solving, which are categorized as High Order Thinking Skills (HOTS), in the learning activities of the 11th grade English teaching lesson plan at Senior High School. A content analysis method was used in this study. The data was analyzed using a systematic content descriptive text based on Anderson and Krathwohl's Taxonomy's cognitive levels and ACTS21S framework descriptors. The data sources of this study are 5 lesson plans from 2 different senior high schools in Jakarta. The findings revealed that the ways of thinking throughout full lesson plans were insufficiently incorporated with learning activities. This result can be used to foster and realign existing lesson plans to meet and to enrich with the descriptors of higher-order thinking skills.

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