Critical thinking and the improvement of trainee middle school english teachers’ teaching skills
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critical thinking, rainee teacher students, internship, communicative approach
Abstract
The development of critical thinking skills among trainee teachers is essential based on the idea that teaching is a decision-making activity.
This article presents the results of a research study conducted in a normal school for English middle school teachers in Puebla, Mexico. The main aim of it is to propose a teaching training strategy, based on the critical thinking theory, to help trainee middle school English teacher students to improve their daily performance
during their internship under the communicative approach principles. The study used a preexperimental
design in the scope of quantitative methodology. The population participating in this research was a single group of 12 participants observed and evaluated before and after an intervention using a performance evaluation rubric for data collection. It was found that the intervention helped to improve teaching by changing practices commonly used by English student teachers that include teacher center classes, the use of mother tongue as the main language of communication, grammar contentbased classes, and the lack of opportunities for students to develop communicative skills.
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Ricardo Rafael Macareno Flores, Higher Normal School of the State of Puebla, Mexico
Higher Normal School of the State of Puebla. Bachelor of Media Education and Upper Media in the specialty of English. Master in Methodology in the Teaching of English. Master in New Technologies for teaching at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Teacher and Adviser of teachers in initial formation of English of secondary in the Normal School Superior of the State of Puebla. Teacher of English in the Department of Language and Culture of the Popular Autonomous University of Puebla.
Benjamín Gutiérrez Gutiérrez, Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
Doctorate in Educational Research and Innovation. Bachelor of Foreign Language Teaching, Master of Higher Education and Doctorate in Educational Sciences. Participates in evaluation projects and curricular design. He collaborates in national and international research projects. Profile PRODEP and part of the registry of researchers of the Vice-Rectory of Research and Graduate Studies of the BUAP. Member of the academic body. Curriculum, Evaluation and Curriculum Innovation. Advisor in the design of the national examination of medical residencies in English in the Ministry of Health and in the Institutional Program of Academic Evaluation of the BUAP. Participates in research projects of the Network of Academic Bodies in Foreign Languages (RECALE). It has publications in books, magazines and extensive memoirs. Member of the editorial committee of the Mexican Journal of Materials Science and Engineering of the Autonomous University of Yucatan. Teacher collaborator of the Master in the Teaching of English and the Doctorate in Educational Research and Innovation.