Thinking Skills

Thinking – a mental process to integrate knowledge, skills & attitude for understanding of

environment.

Thinking skills can be categorized into critical thinking skills & creative thinking skills. A person who thinks critically always evaluates ideas in systematic manner before accepting. A person who thinks creatively has high level of imagination, able to generate innovative & new ideas, and modify ideas and products.

There was also thinking strategies. Thinking strategies are higher order thinking processes that involve various steps and each step involves various critical & creative thinking skills.

Science process skills and thinking skills are interrelated. Science process skills are skills that are required in the process of finding solutions to a problem or making decisions in a systematic manner. It is a mental process that promotes critical, creative, analytical and systematic thinking. Mastering of science process skills and the possession of suitable attitudes and knowledge enable students to think effectively.

Scientific attitudes & Noble values:

There is a need in inculcating the students the scientific attitudes and noble values. The values and attitudes that learn can be used wherever they are. Some of the attitudes and values are:

• Having critical and analytical thinking
• Being flexible & open minded
• Being objective
• Being systematic
• Being cooperative
• Being fair and just
• Dare to try
• Being confident and independent
• Thinking rationally