1. INTRODUCTION TO THINKING SKILLS By: Nur Salimah Binti Alias

2. What is think and thinking?
Involves control.
Mind’s movement become thinking when we direct them.
Think
Uncontrolled
Mental activity
Cognitive and behavior process

3. Thinking is any mental activity that helps formulate or solve a problem, make a decision, or fulfill a desire to understand.
It is a searching for answers, a reaching for meaning (Ruggreio, 2012).

5. How about thinking skills?
Costa (1985) in Philips 1999, gives meaning to thinking skill as a process by the mind as the result of receiving stimulus of the five senses. The meaning of stimulus then were seen in action.

6. Dewey (1933) in Philips (1999)
is an effort of the mind to examine and weight certain information according to specific criteria.
Butterworth & Thwaites (2005) thinking skill is a critical thinking and can be argumentative

7. Thinking skills is Cognitive processes in search of meaning and understanding of something, exploration on any possible ideas, decision making, problem solving and doing what is right, thus in concerns on the reflections of what has been-values on the thinking

9. The complexity of mind/thinking

10. Understanding the mind

12. Thinking process

13. Why is thinking skills is so important?

14. Able to create and build positive social bonding
Able to use and outsource various resources in a creative and specific way/s in search of an answer of/or problem solver to a certain problem.
To produce a self learning, self independence and informative individual.
Able to better communication (good communication skills).

15. Obstacles in developing thinking skills
Gunung Kinabalu’ affect
Knowledge only on what has been taught. Not showing neither abilities nor skills in search of any new knowledge and additional skills within subject matters
Spoon feed’ teaching-
Everything was prepared for. Not willingly to be self independence learning. Hoping everything to be provided by the instructor.
Thinking trap!

17. Model Kemahiran Berfikir
Use of thinking skills in order to solve problem.
Positive
Analytical problem/cases Analyze Find solution and solve
(Reactive based) (Information + techniques) Negative
CREATIVITY
‘Think Out of the Box’

19. ARE YOU A THINKER?

22. Jenis-jenis pemikiran Type/Styles of thinking
Pemikiran logik (Logical thinking)
-to think based on knowledge, certain,proven
Pemikiran kritikal (Critical thinking)
-think clearly,rationally,evaluates,judgments
Pemikiran kreatif (Creative thinking)
-new perspectives
Pemikiran analitikal (Analytical thinking)
-solve problems
Pemikiran proaktif dan Pemikiran reaktif (Proactive thinking and Reactive thinking )
-before problem (P), after problem (R)
Pemikiran berlandaskan sejarah/kejadian masa lampau (Historical thinking)
-facts about the past
Pemikiran teknikal (Technical thinking)
-solve problem thru experience, involve learned skills

23. Sambungan Continue Pemikiran berhipotesis (Hypothetical thinking)
-assumption
Pemikiran projektif (Projective thinking)
-new logics,without any influence
Pemikiran konstruktif (Constructive thinking)
-interprete and respons
Pemikiran berlandaskan naluri (Intuitive thinking)
-beyond mental process, no proof
Pemikiran objektif (Objective thinking)
-facts,unbiased,unpersonal
Pemikiran vertikal (Vertical thinking)
-selective, analytical and sequential

24. Sambungan Continue
Pemikiran konvergen dan divergen (Convergent and Divergent thinking)
-right or wrong,good or bad
Pemikiran positif (Positive thinking)
-focus on bright side
Pemikiran negatif (Negative thinking)
-focus on negativity
Pemikiran berlandaskan emosi (Emotive thinking)
-focus on emotion