Critical thinking in teaching and learning session among secondary school Tamil teachers

Abstract

This study examined about the Critical Thinking in Teaching and Learning session among secondary school Tamil teachers. This research consists of two objectives. First objective is to identify the use of critical thinking in teaching and learning session among Tamil teachers. Second objective is to identify the techniques to implement critical thinking in teaching and learning among Tamil teachers. Researcher have been chosen an urban secondary school at Kuala Langat, Selangor as my research area for this research. Researcher includes five Tamil teachers consists of a senior assistant dan Two form two teachers and Two form four teachers as research's sample. The types of methods used to collect data were mix method such as Quantitative and Qualitative methods. Besides that, Interview, Questionnaire and also Observation analysis methods were used to analysis the data obtained in this research. Researcher have used Bloom’s Theory for better results in this research. By using Interview and Questionnaire instruments, researcher had collected data for the first objective while do observation for the second objective. Most of the teachers used I-Think maps and do Question & Answer (Q&A) session in Tamil teaching and learning session methods to improve critical thinking among the students. As a result, all 5 teachers implement the Critical Thinking in teaching and learning lesson of Tamil. Moreover, their knowledge toward Critical Thinking is very strong and the use various kind of ways to improve Critical Thinking such as Audio, Video, and most important I-Think Map and Q & A Session to voice out.