| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 課程與教學研究所 === 105 === The purpose of this study is to investigate the development and effectiveness in utilizing the concept of “class co-reading” in structuring a reading project to enhance the critical thinking ability of students. The method of action research was used in this study and students from sixth grade elementary schools were chosen as the study subjects. Study data was collected during 10 weeks by conducting tests, interviewing with study subjects, collecting documentations and preparing teaching logs. Data collected during the process were analyzed and examined to get the study result.
This study has the following conclusions and discoveries after summarizing the study results:
A. Class co-reading for children is useful that can promote the ability of critical thinking.
B. Study results showed that this teaching project is helpful in promoting children’s knowledge ,attitude and skills of critical thinking.
C. The challenges of this study that author faced and how they have been solved are as followed:
a. The lack of professional skills of critical thinking, the author should study more informations of it and ask experts to some advice.
b. The author herself is currently an elementary school teacher, certain current teaching habits therefore may have impacts on this study. Watching the teaching videos of the class will be needed to get a better study result.
c. Students has a dropping disposition of reading ability, therefore, choose the appropriate teaching materials depends on inspiring and promoting logical thinking.
d. The ways of group discussion should be changed when the situation and questions have changed.
e. The importance of discussion questions is not quantity but quality.To ensure students have time to think deeper, we should increase more time in group discussing and personal thinking.
D. Lessons learned and reflections of the author during the teaching process
a. Material design should be close to children’s life experiences and focus on the
children themselves.
b. Students are always the subject of study.
c. It is necessary to adjust how we teach and what we teach, to think and introspect
ourselves.
d. The purpose of education should be on inspiring children in order for them to
develop the abilities of investigating and thinking.
e. The author has made improvements during the study in aspects like critical
thinking, reading comprehensions and teacher-student interactions skills.
The author made suggestions on teaching practice and future study topics based on the above conclusions and discoveries.
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