Examination of Turkish Language Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Perceptions of Teaching Thinking Skills in Terms of Various Variables

The aim of this study was to examine Turkish Language teachers’ self-efficacy perceptions of teaching thinking skills in terms of the variables of age, professional experience, educational status, and taking course on thinking skills. The screening model was used in the study. The current pandemic process was taken into account and the convenience sampling method was used while determining the study group. Turkish Language teachers forming the study group consisted of 109 females and 68 males. “Teachers’ Self-efficacy towards teaching thinking scale” was used as the data collection tool. The data of the study were analyzed using the statistical package program. In conclusion, no significant difference was found between the Turkish Language teachers’ self-efficacy perceptions of teaching thinking skills and gender. It was concluded that Turkish Language teachers’ self-efficacy perceptions of teaching thinking skills differed according to professional experience. It was concluded that there was no significant difference between Turkish Language teachers’ self-efficacy perceptions of teaching thinking skills and their educational status. It was concluded that there was a significant difference between Turkish Language teachers’ self-efficacy perceptions of teaching thinking skills and taking course on thinking skills.

"Internet+" Blended Learning Model and Practice Research from the Perspective of Smart Education

In a comprehensive education environment, we must pay attention to cultivating students' thinking ability, and provide effective support for the cultivation of students' English literacy through the construction of a heuristic and participatory English teaching system, so that students’ English practical application ability and comprehensive literacy can be cultivated. "Let’s take root." Based on the introduction of the concept of blended learning mode, this article will combine with the book "The Development of "Thinking and Innovation" Teaching: Thinking and Innovation" to analyte the current innovation background and direction of "Thinking and Innovation" teaching. Explore the innovative mechanism of "Thinking and Innovation" teaching under the guidance of English core literacy nurturers, analyte the characteristics of the blended learning model and the necessity for the teaching reform of "Thinking and Innovation". On this basis, the relevant practical research of blended learning mode teaching is carried out.

The relationship between science teachers’ use of the flipped classroom strategy and their attitudes towards developing higher-order thinking skills among upper basic stage students in Hebron: العلاقة بين استخدام معلمي العلوم لاستراتيجية الصف المعكوس واتجاهاتهم نحو تنمية مهارات التفكير العليا لدى طلبة المرحلة الأساسية العليا في محافظة الخليل

The study aimed to identify the relationship between science teachers' use of the flipped classroom strategy and their attitudes towards developing higher-order thinking skills among students of the higher basic stage in the Hebron governorate. In order to achieve the goal of the study, the researcher followed the descriptive and analytical approach, as she/he conducted a questionnaire to measure the extent to which science teachers use the flipped classroom strategy, and she conducted another questionnaire to measure the attitudes of science teachers towards developing higher-order thinking skills among students of the higher basic stage. Then, the two questionnaire sheets are electronically applied to a random sample of science teachers in the Hebron governorate. The number of the sample is (136) teachers in all directorates of the Hebron governorate. The results have shown that science teachers use the flipped classroom strategy frequently. Moreover, science teachers' attitudes towards developing higher-order thinking skills among students were at a high level, as the field of "critical thinking skills" came in the first place, followed by "problem-solving skills", however, "creative thinking skills" ranked last. Besides, the results have shown a strong correlation between science teachers ’use of the flipped classroom strategy and teachers' attitudes towards developing students' higher-order thinking skills. And, there are statistically significant differences in the science teachers' use of the flipped classroom strategy in teaching students of the higher basic stage in the Hebron governorate as well as in the science teachers' attitudes towards developing higher-order thinking skills among students of the higher basic stage in the Hebron governorate according to the gender variable for females, and according to the directorate variable for the directorate North Hebron. given the findings of the study; The researcher recommended that it is necessary to provide means of support to encourage teachers to employ modern technologies in teaching thinking. It is also necessary to conduct more studies dealing with the relationship between teachers' attitudes towards developing higher thinking skills and employing other teaching strategies and to conduct evaluation studies to examine the effectiveness of flipped learning strategies in teaching thinking.

Teaching thinking in South African schools: Selected school leaders’ perceptions

In this article we argue that school leaders should ensure that teachers experience a supportive professional learning community committed to collaborative, thoughtful inquiry and be enabled to create similar communities in their classrooms. This study followed on one published in 2017 that explored school leaders’ responses to an introduction to cognitive education. The same participants investigated cognitive education practices (ways of teaching thinking) in their schools, with an emphasis on the factors that facilitated or constrained implementation. Using a qualitative research approach an open ended research assignment in the form of a report was completed by 32 teachers in school leadership positions. The data was analysed using the guidelines of grounded theory to identify key themes. The findings suggest a possible starting point for leadership initiatives, although cognitive education practices in the participating schools were constrained by a number of structural, contextual and personal factors. Discussion highlights the importance of the development of professional learning communities that focus on cognitive education and identifies a possible leadership direction, namely, building on the progress already made in training teachers to apply Bloom’s taxonomy to assessment tasks. Although our data is from schools in one area of South Africa, our conclusions are likely to have implications for school leadership generally, with particular reference to the development of classroom and professional thinking and learning communities.

The Vocabulary Teaching Mode Based on the Theory of Constructivism

Vocabulary teaching is an important research topic in English teaching, this paper combines constructivist theory with English vocabulary teaching and proposes a new model of vocabulary teaching on the basis of qualitative analysis and modular construction, that is “The Word Parameter Contextualized Meaning Construction Mode and The Embodiment-activation Schematic Construction Mode”, the former point out that some words, in vocabulary teaching, do not appear in the vocabulary list, but teachers can hint parameters or clues in the context, such as: time, categories, comparison etc. to guide students to recognize and construct the meaning of unknown words autonomously; the latter means that the human brain systematically stores the learned knowledge and experience and divides it into several units to form a "schema" of which some incomplete places will continue to be supplemented and improved with people's cognition and practice’s development. At the same time, the accumulation of new knowledge will activate the old knowledge in the brain, which enables learners to connect messy knowledge into a systematic network. It is worth promoting in teaching practice. This study selects the college English textbook "New Vision" as the case material to analyze and prove that this new type of vocabulary teaching mode not only can broaden the teaching thinking of teachers and improve teaching efficiency, but also can help students explore the cognitive laws of vocabulary, build a vocabulary system, and effectively stimulate their potential in the short term.

Research On The Construction Path And Evaluation System Of "Ideological And Political Course" Of Management Specialty In Applied Colleges And Universities Under The Background Of Internet

The rise of Internet technology brings opportunities for the development of various industries in China, and creates a good environment for the information construction and the innovation and cultivation of talents in colleges and universities. Although Internet technology has changed the traditional teaching thinking and mode, under the background of "Internet ", the openness of information, the diversity of culture and the contradiction between various trends of thought make students' moral understanding and ideas face severe challenges. The major of management is mainly to train professionals who meet the needs of market economy and adapt to the development of modernization. They should not only master the professional knowledge of economic management, but also have the ability and comprehensive accomplishment to engage in practical financial work. Therefore, the applied colleges and universities should take the Internet platform as the opportunity to explore the construction path and evaluation system of college students' ideology and morality, and create an environment for the healthy development of students.

خبرة الجامعة الإسلامية العالمية بماليزيا في تدريس أساليب التفكير في ضوء القرآن الكريم ودورها في إشاعة وتفعيل تدبر القرآن (IIUM Experience in Teaching Thinking Styles in the Quran and its role in realization of Tadabbur)

بدأت الجامعة الإسلامية العالمية بماليزيا بتدريس مادة التفكير الإبداعي لطلاب كلية معارف الوحي والعلوم الإنسانية في فبراير ١٩٩٧م ثم أصبح متطلبا جامعيا لكل طلبة الجامعة بحلول العام الأكاديمي ٢٠١٧/ ٢٠١٨م. تعد أساليب التفكير في ضوء القرآن الكريم أحد أهم محتويات المقرر. ووفقا للاستقراء الذي اعتمده الفصل الرابع بالكتاب المقرر تبيّن أنّ القرآن الكريم احتوى على خمس عشرة أسلوبا من أساليب التفكير. وقد تم تطبيق خطوات التدريس نفسها بنجاح على طلبة وطالبات الثانوية في ماليزيا وبعض البلدان الأخرى منها إندونيسيا وهونج كونج وذلك من خلال برنامج تدريبي مدته ساعتان ونصف. اشتمل منهج التدريس على: بيان معنى كل أسلوب، كيفية التعرف على الأسلوب من خلال الكلمات المفتاحية والسياق، ضرب الأمثلة المختلفة من بعض سور القرآن الكريم، ثم استثارة عقول الطلاب لذكر أمثلة أخرى، انتهاءً بالتعرف على كيفية تطبيق كل أسلوب في واقع الحياة اليومية. تجيب الورقة على الأسئلة التالية: ما أساليب التفكير في القرآن الكريم؟ وما منهج الجامعة الإسلامية العالمية في تدريسها؟ وما دور تدريسها في إشاعة وتفعيل تدبر القرآن الكريم؟ ستعتمد الورقة المنهج الوصفي، والاستقرائي، والتحليلي، لبيان منهج تدريس المقرر لطلاب المرحلة الجامعية، وأهم الخطوات المتبعة لتمكين الطلاب من فهم واستيعاب تلك الأساليب وتطبيقها بشكل عملي في حياتهم العملية بشكل مبسط. ولهذا البحث مصدران أساسيان: أحدهما الفصل الرابع من الكتاب الجامعي المقرر، والثاني الخبرة العملية في تدريس المقرر لمدة تزيد عن عشرين سنة في منهج تدريس المقرر في قاعات الدرس، والورش التدريبية لطلاب الثانوية والجامعات في عدد من دول العالم نحو: ماليزيا، وإندونيسيا، وهونج كونج، وسنغافورة، وليبيا، وسلطنة عمان. الكلمات المفتاحيّة: تدريس التفكير، أساليب التفكير، التفكير في القرآن الكريم. Abstract IIUM started teaching creative Thinking subject in February 1997 as a required subject for KIRK students becoming a university requirement (UNGS) later on by the academic year 2017/2018. Thinking styles in the Quran were considered as part of the subject syllabus which was endorsed by IIUM senate. Based on chapter four of the subject textbook it is found that the Quran used fifteen different thinking styles and later on two more styles were observed bringing the number of the styles to seventeen. Teaching methodology included: definition of each style, practical ways to identify it through specific terms and contexts along with providing Quranic verses then engaging students to come up with similar examples and how to apply them to real life situations. The paper aims to answer the following questions: What are the thinking styles used in the Quran? What kind of methodology used in teaching the styles at IIUM? What is the role of these styles to realize tadabbur? The paper applies descriptive, inductive and analytical methodologies to elucidate the IIUM experience in teaching the above mentioned Quranic Thinking styles to IIUM students and the procedural steps used to help the students understand the styles and apply it in their real life. There are two main sources for this academic notes: chapter four of the subject textbook and the academic experience in teaching it in classroom since 1997 and conducting training workshops for High school and university students face to face in different parts of the region and other parts of the world such as: Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Libya and Oman. Keywords: teaching thinking, thinking styles, thinking in the Quran.