HIGH-LEVEL THINKING – ITS CONCEPT AND COMPONENTS

HIGH-LEVEL THINKING – ITS CONCEPT AND COMPONENTS

CAO THI HA caoha.dhsp@gmail.com Thai Nguyen University of Education
NGUYEN THI QUOC HOA hoanguyenquoc73@gmail.com Chu Van An Upper Secondary School - Thai Nguyen
NGUYEN VAN THANH thanhpgdss@gmail.com Soc Son District Division of Education - Ha Noi
Summary: 
High level thinking skills are important skills in the learning and in the life. Components of the high level thinking skills include: Logical thinking, critical thinking, digestion, creativeness, perspicaciousness, and metacognition. Key skills often integrate with high level thinking skills in the teaching process. The use of high level thinking in the teaching process depends on the nature the learning task as well as on history of thinking competence by each individual. From that, the student will form and perfect their abilities of observation, deduction, creativity, problem solving when facing challeges in their learning and their lives
Keywords: 
High level thinking
skill
cognition
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