Pre-Service Teachers’ Views on How the Station Rotation Model with a Blended Social Learning Environment (SRM-BSCLE) Enhances their Critical Thinking Skills

Abstract

This study examined pre-service teachers' views on how the station rotation model learning environment enhances their critical thinking skills. This research studied how a learning environment coupled with blended learning and a social learning environment improves teachers’ performance. The participants were 54 pre-service teachers who took part in a quasi-experimental study; the participants received intervention on a station rotation model with a blended social learning environment (SRM-BSCLE). Face-to-face interview data were collected from six (6) pre-service teachers selected based on high, medium, and low-performance criteria. The obtained data were analyzed using thematic analysis; the qualitative data indicated that pre-service teachers’ views on the learning environment comprised of station rotation model, collaborative learning, blended learning, and Vygotsky’s social interaction Zone of Proximal Teacher Development (ZPTD). The study shows that the six pre-service teachers who took part in the interview were able to identify the theoretical components of the research objectives in this research. This includes collaborative learning, blended learning, station rotation model, constructivist approach to teaching, and teaching aids. Thus, the findings obtained from this study were discussed within the frame of the relevant literature. There made on designing a learning environment that can enhance the critical thinking skills of pre-service teachers.