ROLE OF INSTRUCTIONAL COACHING TECHNIQUE IN DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS OF STUDENTS

Abstract

Education enables one to be self-aware, dispelling the darkness and breaking the illusion. A skillful person can dispel and break the illusion. The purpose of 21^st century learning skills put emphasize to produce the skillful persons. Critical thinking skills received vital place among 21^st century learning skills. The main intention of this experimental study was to explore the role of instructional coaching technique in developing of critical thinking skills among students at secondary school level in the subject Islamiyat. The Equivalent material design with single group was selected to conduct the experiment. Students were taught through instructional coaching technique. A content-based test was used as a data collection tool prior and post to intervention. The finding reveals that there is no significant role of instructional coaching technique exists in developing critical thinking skills of the students in the subject Islamiyat. Data analysis showed that that instructional coaching as a teaching technique can slightly enhance the critical thinking skills of the students.