certainly, don’t just think all the time.

9 Feb. 08   thinking

Thinking skills and strategies, on the other hand, are very specific operations we deliberately perform on or with data in order to accomplish our thinking goals—operations like identifying a problem, finding unstated assumptions, or assessing the strength of an argument.

Metacognition can be described as an overall general strategy or plan for thinking that employs very specific procedures or skills to carry out that plan. It consist three major operations: planning, monitoring /directing and assessing a thinking task. Metacognition is also linked closely to the dispositions, knowledge, and cognitive operations that constitute thinking. The effort and attention that generate thinking are applied essentially through metacognitive operations.

Cognitive thinking skills” 1) thinking strategies including: problem solving, decision making, conceptualizing. 2) Micro—thinking skills. There are two types: basic information processing operations and reasoning operations. 3) Critical thinking. It is essentially evaluative in nature. It involves precise, persistent, and objective analysis of any claim, source, or belief to judge its accuracy, validity, or worth. 4) Creative thinking, like critical thinking is distinguished by a number of unique dispositions. But, creative thinking is divergent, seeks to generate something new, and is carried on often by violating accepted principles

As a teacher or student, we must have thinking skills in our learning process. On first impression, thinking seems to be rather amorphous. But a deeper and more conscious understanding of thinking is necessary to teach it to others. Hannah Arendt once wrote,” the quest for meaning”. Thinking is mental manipulation of sensory input and recalled perceptions to formulate thoughts, reason about, or judge. Thinking involves and serves a multitude of functions. It is a complex phenomenon, indeed. Thinking environment have four types: operation, knowledge, dispositions, purpose. Effective thinking involves a willingness, indeed a desire, to engage in thinking, a determination to stay at it until the goal has been achieved, and an awareness—almost a faith—that, by skillful use of one’s mind, one can achieve the established goal.

    1 Feb. 08    

What’s going on my dear friends? I’m very glad to see you and live in Malaysian. Become a member of UKM is my pleasure. Because of learning a lot of experiences and knowledge. If I want to become a good teacher, it is not easy that must know beyond your books. Perhaps it also inadequate. Namely, teaching and learning is your life long process. Now, I don’t know how to learning too much, but, I’ll try my best learn it as soon as possible. Everyone could say English has already common sense. So English education that we must take a lot of time to understand and learn it.