TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR FOSTERING HIGHER ORDER COGNITIVE SKILLS :THE NEED OF THE GLOBALISED ERA

The fast paced scientifc and technological developments has transformed the whole world into a global vilage. Global warming, ozone depletion, oil spils, nuclear energy etc have forced the thinkers acros the world to make a reform in the education at al levels. We come acros dilemmatic situation in our everyday life which requires us to make judicious use of knowledge, solve problems, make unbiased decisions. In order to subsist these chalenges beter we ned to prepare the future citzen who can make use of their higher order cognitve skils like problem solving, decision making, critcal thinking, rational thinking etc in an implicit way. This requires paradigm shift in teaching- learning technique form presiding algorithmic lower order cognitve skils to higher order cognitve skils in concurent educational system. This paper atempts to throw light on the role of teachers in the promotion of higher order cognitve skils into the clas rom. The teaching strategies used for the promotion of higher order cognitve skils are discused along with the chalenges.