Estrategia de aprendizaje para desarrollar el pensamiento crítico en los alumnos de cuarto grado de la Unidad Educativa Quince de Octubre

Competency based education seeks to develop cognitive skills that allow students to generate critical thinking that translates into the ability of students to solve problems inside and outside the classroom. The main objective of this research project is to design a learning strategy to develop critical thinking in fourth grade students of the Fiscal Educational Unit "Quince de Octubre". In this sense, it is necessary for teachers to take advantage of the various moments of work in the field of education and be able to introduce or develop strategies to cultivate this criticality in students. Hence the importance of understanding the dimensions of reasoning, the criteria and intellectual elements necessary to develop critical thinking, and analyzing strategies to encourage active and reflective participation based on the academic level of students, since, by developing critical thinking it is a strategy that benefits learning in general. Therefore, the teaching of students and the methods of teachers must be transformed, that is, take a turn to change the routine memorization for critical thinking to face changes and contribute with new and creative ideas. This is why this research was educational because it adopts a dialectical perspective, using both quantitative and qualitative methods to study educational phenomena. In the field diagnosis, different methods, techniques and tools are applied to verify the objectivity of the problem. Both theoretical and practical approaches allow to identify causes, consequences and design instructional strategies based on systematic scientific references in a theoretical framework to guide the teaching process to better understand their potentialities, abilities, needs and therefore the increase of participation. of the students. La educación basada en competencias busca el desarrollo de habilidades cognitivas que permiten al estudiante generar un pensamiento crítico que se traduce en la capacidad del alumnado para resolver problemas dentro y fuera del aula. Este proyecto de investigación tiene como objetivo principal diseñar una estrategia de aprendizaje para desarrollar el pensamiento crítico en alumnos de cuarto grado de la Unidad Educativa Fiscal “Quince de Octubre”. En este sentido, es necesario que los docentes aprovechen los diversos momentos de trabajo en el campo de la educación y sean capaces de introducir o desarrollar estrategias para cultivar esta criticidad en los estudiantes. De ahí la importancia de com