Covid19: technology catalyst for higher order thinking skills (hots) in teaching and facilitation

Abstract

Education is a lifelong learning process and cannot stop to produce a balanced individual. In order to ensure the objectives are continuously achieved, formal teaching and facilitation (PdPc) in education must be carried on and achieved. The skills that need to be mastered by teachers today are higher order thinking skills (HOTS) in teaching and facilitation (PdPc). However, under certain circumstances the process needs to be adjusted according to its surrounding to ensure the teaching and facilitation process runs effectively, for instance during this COVID-19 pandemic and Movement Control Order (MCO). These situations should not be a barrier for effective teaching and learning process to happen between teachers and students. However, only the landscape of teaching should change from physical to virtual. This requires teachers more HOTs in the layout of every lesson session that happend. Thus, a research concept paper using qualitative method by utilizing the library resources will discuss the education concept and PdPc landscape that teachers and students still apply HOTs during PdPc and need to adapt to ensure education can continuously take place.