The Effectiveness of Creative Thinking Skills Training Program (CORT) in the Development of Palm Leaves Industries and Strengthen the Trend towards Literal Work with Ninth Grade Students in South Batinah Governorate, Oman

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-74
Author(s):  
Hafidha Suleiman Ahmed Al-Barashdi
Author(s):  
Rashidah Karnain ◽  
Saemah Rahman ◽  
Shahlan Surat ◽  
M.T. Ali

Teachers face the challenges in producing students with 21st-century basic skills encompassing communication, collaborative, critical and creative thinking, as well as values and ethical. The reasons are the teachers do not have enough knowledge and skills to implement student-centered teaching, applying 21st-century basic skills, and teachers’ thinking skills which are metacognition is at a low level. To overcome this problem, the Metacogni-tive Skills Training Module in the Teaching and Application of 21st Centu-ry Basic Skills (M-PA21) was developed. The training module needs to be evaluated for usability to see if it can solve the teachers’ existing problems. Therefore, the study aims to evaluate the usability of the M-PA21 module to improve the teachers’ metacognitive regulation in teaching. Evaluation of module usability was conducted through field test involving 16 respond-ents consisting of secondary school teachers. The data collection was done through module usability questionnaire, micro-teaching observation, and document analysis. The questionnaires of module usability were analyzed using SPSS version 24.0 by determining mean value, while observation data was analyzed thematic. Document analysis supports the evaluation of ques-tionnaires and observation findings. Overall, the findings show that the M-PA21 module can enhance teachers’ metacognitive regulation in the teach-ing and application of basic skills of the 21st century


2019 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 92-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojing Gu ◽  
Ap Dijksterhuis ◽  
Simone M. Ritter

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayed H. Ziadat ◽  
Mohammad T. Al Ziyadat

<p class="apa">The main purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a training program based on the six hats model in developing creative thinking skills and academic achievements in the Arabic language for gifted and talented Jordanian students.</p><p class="apa">The study sample consisted of 59 gifted male and female students of the 7<sup>th</sup> grade from King Abdullah II Elite School at the Directorate of Education in Salt City, Jordan. The sample was carefully chosen from students enrolled in the academic year 2014 and were divided randomly into two groups: an experimental group of 27 male and female students and a controlling group of 32 male and female students.</p><p class="apa">For the purpose of this study, a training program was developed based on the Six Hats Model that tackled chapter 11 and 12 of the Arabic language syllabus of the seventh grade. Both groups had been given Torrance’s B Test for creative thinking that the authors of this research developed for the Arabic Test to the gifted and talented students with the required factors of reliability and consistency. Statistical tools and analysis on obtained data were applied including the analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA).</p><p class="apa">The outcome of this research showed discrepancies of statistical significance (α =&lt; 0.05) among the skills and measurements of the achievement test in favor of the experimental group. In view of the outcomes of this study, the authors strongly recommend that teachers and educators should be rehabilitated and trained to use and apply the latest educational methods and techniques such as: Alcort program, creative solutions of problems and obstacles, critical thinking, brainstorming, and to refrain from the conventional old methods used which commonly focuses on information storage and retaining crammed data, regardless of the active participation of students.</p>


Author(s):  
Alaa Yousef Al-Sheyyab, Feryal Abd Al-Hadi Shnekat

The study aimed to reveal the effectiveness of a training program based on the Therese theory to develop creative thinking skills for teachers of King Abdullah II Schools of Excellence in Jordan. The study sample consisted of (40) teachers from teachers of King Abdullah II schools for excellence in Al Balqa governorate and Madaba Governorate, In the second semester of the year 2018/2019, and they were chosen intentionally from the study community. They were divided into two groups: the control group by (20) male and female teachers from the schools of King Abdullah II for Excellence in the Madaba governorate who were not subjected to treatment. The experimental group of (20) male and female teachers of King Abdullah II Schools of Excellence in Al Balqa governorate underwent the training program, and the researcher prepared a training program based on the theory of promotion to develop creative thinking skills. The Torrance test was used for creative thinking - the words "A"The study reached the following results: • There were statistically significant differences between the averages of the performance of the post-study members on the test of creative thinking skills, total and sub-due to the group variable (experimental, control), where the differences were in favor of the experimental group. The absence of statistically significant differences between the averages of the performance of the post-study individuals on the test of creative thinking skills, college and sub, due to the variable of the academic qualification and specialization and the interaction between the group variables and the academic qualification and specialization. The study recommended conducting studies to compare programs based on the Therese theory with programs based on other theories to see whether developing creative thinking skills among teachers improves their teaching methods for gifted students.


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