Open AccessIs it difficult to teach higher order thinking skills?
Author(s) -
Isna'atul Afifah,
Heri Retnawati
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1320/1/012098
Subject(s) - higher order thinking , psychology , mathematics education , pedagogy , teaching method , cognitively guided instruction
A teacher must be aware of the importance of teaching higher order thinking skills (HOTS) to prepare young generations in 21 st Century. But in reality, many teachers find difficulties in teaching HOTS. This research aims to describe teachers’ difficulties in teaching HOTS in the classroom. The research is a descriptive explorative research by means of qualitative approach. The data were collected from questionnare. This research involved 10 high school mathematics teachers in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The result of the research shows that the teachers still find difficulties in teaching HOTS in the classroom, those are (1) teachers’ knowledge about HOTS is still low, (2) teachers’ difficulty in delivering apperception to students, (3) teachers’ difficulty in designing and applying the assessment based on HOTS, (4) teacher’s difficulty in delivering HOTS based learning materials, (5) teacher’s difficulty in making learning media based on HOTS, and (6) teachers’ difficulty in preparing learning tools based on HOTS.