21st Century Islamic Education Teachers' Strategy to Nurture Higher Order Thinking Skill (HOTs) Students

Abstract

Teachers are agents of change. Their role is so huge at school and in the society. Changes an attitudes of students, skill, personalities and life goal. It is a responsibility which needs a high attitude and commitment. However, Islamic education teachers (IET)s role is always questioned whenever any negative cases happened in this country. The contribution seems to have minimal impact towards the students. Furthermore, the Ministry of Education (MoE) had introduced High Order Thinking Skill (HOTs) to develop students that have the ability to apply the knowledge of skills and be able to create new things. Thus, this article's method is library research method to discuss the preaching strategy among IET in developing students with HOTs in accordance to the vision of MoE. The result shows that IET is more inclined to implement effective strategy technique in nurturing HOTs students which is either using praises, remembrance and motivation method, question and answer, discussion technique, also refering to the student's capability, role model approach, writing and innovation creating.