THE ROLE OF TEACHERS IN THE FORMATION OF CRITICAL THINKING IN SCHOOLCHILDREN

Abstract

The modern education system faces a number of tasks related to comprehensive development of a personality, which cannot be achieved without developing critical thinking. The effective development of critical and logical thinking of students is facilitated by the systematic implementation of such stages as the challenge stage; the stage of comprehension; the stage of reflection. Comprehension is the main process of developing critical thinking, within which students accept and track information. As part of the process of comprehension, the main task of the teacher is to maintain students’ interest in the topic, increase their activity in the study of the material, for which various methods and techniques are used. In the course of the study, it is concluded that the perception of information by students obtained in the process of developing critical thinking is carried out within the framework of three main stages: challenge, comprehension of the content, reflection. Each of the above stages has its own distinctive characteristics, while all stages are interconnected and aimed at achieving a single goal related to the development of critical thinking. The importance of the comprehension stage lies in the fact that it allows forming skills of working with information, analyzing and systematizing it.