Petrovska, Sonja and Stavreva Veselinovska, Snezana (2013) Contemporary Pedagogical Approaches for Developing Higher Level Thinking on Science Classes. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 92. pp. 702-710. ISSN 1877-0428
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Abstract
The school is the mirror of a society. To create and develop good education means to realize objectives that would
reflect its sense. In current education, the hierarchy of values that should be set and implemented is asymmetrically
positioned. In successful school, the student should become the meaning and the purpose of the content that will introduce
him/her into the world of competition and competence in order to enable successful communication with it. How can a
teaching lesson become a workshop in which new ideas, creative solutions, new forms of research and new knowledge are
being undercrossed?!
The research that has been done in this paper aims to investigate the introduction of practical teaching and
application of reforms in teaching biology in the six primary urban schools in Stip, R. Macedonia. Data were collected from
semi-structured interviews made with 11 experienced teachers of biology and were analyzed their class planes. The results
showed that teachers occasionally introduced a small number of enhanced instructional strategies that explicitly match the
formal curriculum in their classes, such as: presenting, analyzing and generalizing experimental results from practical
teaching of biology in various forms. However, teachers have used fewer strategies that target encouraging higher level
thinking, such as to induce students to ask questions or to learn about problem solving strategies used during lessons.
Differences were identified between teachers regarding the use of rich teaching strategies during lessons, and their beliefs
about the abilities of students to develop the ability to think at a higher level.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | contemporary, teaching biology, teaching strategies, higher level thinking |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences > Educational sciences |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Educational Science |
| Depositing User: | Sonja Petrovska |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jan 2014 10:51 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2014 10:51 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/8728 |
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