Fostering thinking skills by implementing Marzano s high yield strategy in the english classroom

Abstract

This research aimed at exploring the role critical thinking skills in the English class has when being fostered through a high yield strategy and conscious awareness in a group of forty students of eighth grade at a public school in Bogotá. These students were exposed to several activities where specific analysis skills were worked. In this sense the teacher-researcher implemented 6 lesson plans where she could explore the target students? performance and perspectives to continuously adapt the intervention features. For this matter, the researcher previously considered different literature, where Marzano?s New taxonomy of Educational Objectives, his nine-high-yield strategy and the five dimensions of learning described by him are high-lighted.