Teacher’s Strategy for Developing Higher Order Thinking Skills in Teaching Reading to The Eleventh Grade Students of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Sukoharjo in 2018/2019 Academic Year

This research is carried out to describe the teacher's strategy in developing Higher Order Thinking Skills in teaching Reading and the students’ responses toward the strategy used by the teacher in teaching and learning process. The subject was an English teacher and the eleventh-grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Sukoharjo in 2018/2019 academic year. This type of research is descriptive qualitative. The data were collected through observation, interviews, and document analysis and analyzed through three stages, namely: data reduction, data display, data verification and drawing conclusion. The result showed the strategy used by the teacher to develop HOTS were: (1) informing learning objectives to the students, (2) asking question to the students, (3) using discussion, (4) giving feedback to the students, and (5) motivating students to think critically. The students’ responses to the strategies carried out by the teacher were good, but there were problems and strengths about the strategies applied by the teacher. The problems were students find it difficult to adapt to the teacher’s strategies learning because it was the second meeting and to understand the material because of the different abilities of students. 5 The advantage of the strategy applied by teachers was it can train teamwork ability and learning skills through group discussions.