Arab Educational Information Network

The study aimed at enriching the content of the Technology textbook for the twelfth grade, in light of the skills of systemic thinking. To achieve the objective of the study, the researcher followed the descriptive / analytical method by describing the contents of the tackled textbook, as the structural approach was used to enrich the content of the book with appropriate systemic thinking skills and to promote the content in such thinking skills. In this regard, the researcher has proposed a structured list of system thinking skills to be implemented in the twelfth-grade technology book, as a list of activities were planned to support the content of the book with such thinking skills. The study results revealed the insufficiency of systemic thinking skills in the tackled book, as the skill of classification composed only (27.4%), and the skill of understanding systemic relationships was (44.4%). Also, the results showed that the skill of systemic analysis was (%17.7), and the skill of system structuring was (9.1%), while the skill of systemic assessment was (1.2%) of the total repetition of systemic thinking skills in the book. In light of the results of the study, the researcher recommended paying more attention to incorporating the systemic thinking skills into the technology textbooks, besides training the teachers in systemic thinking through a training program illustrates the importance and the feasibility of using this type of thinking for students and teachers in the process of learning. (Published Abstract)