Strategi for Developing High Level Thinking Learning

In planning learning to think at a high level the obstacles that often arise is to prepare the conditions of the learning environment that supports the creation of thought processes and the growth of effective attitudes and behaviors. This process can be done with establish thinking activities with content through material collaboration, making conclusions, build representations, analyze and build relationships between concepts (Lewis and Smith, 1993).

Things to consider in developing higher-order thinking skills lies in the content / learning material and context of students. If students not ready to do higher-order thinking skills, it needs to be built first the connecting bridge between the low-level thinking process towards think high level. The trick is to build a schemata of knowledge the beginning that has been obtained previously with new knowledge to be taught.

Once fulfilled, the teacher needs to prepare a real situation that can stimulate high-level thought processes by creating dilemmas, confusion, challenges and abiguities of the planned problems students will face (King, Goodson and Rohani, 2006).