READING AND WRITING IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL THINKING AS AN ACTIVE lEARNING TECHNOLOGY

The educational reform carried out in our country created a wide opportunity to implement serious changes and renewal in the content and methods of training. The educational system of developed countries, the content, methods, organizational forms, etc. of their training and the acquisition of new knowledge had a significant impact on the efficiency of activities in this direction. From this point of view, it is necessary to mention the introduction of various training technologies to our country. Organization of trainings on useful learning technologies and translation of theoretical literature were steps taken forward. However, it must be admitted that the situation of conducting special research in our country regarding imported learning technologies is not satisfactory. The perfect mastery of the theoretical issues of these technologies, the testing of their usefulness based on experiments, and the printing of the results for school use remain an important task of our pedagogical science. The RWCT (Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking) project, which is valued as an active learning technology, attracts attention in terms of developing students’ cognitive activity and independent thinking. The perfect structure of project-based lessons, flexible and interesting stages of training provide a wide opportunity to organize work efficiently. RWCT is distinguished by its unique training methods. Some of these methods are applied in all stages of the lesson, and some in separate stages.