The implementation of critical-thinking skills and teaching strategies by social studies teachers in Kuwait and the difficulties they face

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This study investigates how social studies teachers in Kuwait implement critical-thinking skills, teaching strategies, and assessment techniques.

And to identify the challenges they face.

The research adopts the descriptive method as the most appropriate for this study, describing a phenomenon and reaching a generalization by analyzing and reviewing previous research.

(Creswell, 2021).

A questionnaire was distributed to 638 social studies teachers in Kuwaiti schools and 116 instructional supervisors to conduct the study.

The study's findings indicated a lack of teachers' understanding of critical-thinking skills, a weakness in applying those skills to instructional strategies, a lack of assessment techniques, and difficulties confronting those who taught critical-thinking skills.

Based on the study results, recommendations were made regarding the development of pre-service teacher preparation programs, attention to in-service teacher training, social studies curricula development, and their inclusion of critical thinking skills, activities, and strategies.

The study also recommended that decision-makers overcome all teachers' difficulties to improve critical thinking and achieve the desired educational objectives.