Let's Get HOTs

Let's get

HOTS!
Higher Order

Thinking Skills

INA V. NUCUP
Presenter

What do teachers do when they want to challenge their students?

They ask a LOT of questions!

Quick Informal Assessment.

The higher the level of the questions....

The higher the level of thinking and understanding required to answer!

Two Different Type of Thinking Skills

Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)

Fat Questions

Learning takes place when you produce knowledge, NOT REproduce it.

Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS)
Skinny Questions

List..
Name..
Define..
Describe...

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​Examples of Skinny (LOTS) Questions:

Evaluate..

Hypothesize..

Construct..

Predict..

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Examples of ​FAT (HOTS) Questions:

Engagement.

Asking questions is a great way to get students engage.

Why should teachers ask question?

​Helps teachers where to take the lesson.

Re-teach.
Move forward.

​Can get students to think critically.
Students will analyze, create and evaluate information from the lesson.

Types of Questions:

Managerial Questions

Asking leading questions.

What plants do you find in the desert?
Why would you find plants there?

Types of Questions:

Rhetorical Questions

This is use by teachers to emphasize a point

This should get students to critically think and globally examine the question.

It is often have more than one right answer.

Types of Questions:

Open Questions

They are used to create discussion.

Types of Questions:

Closed Questions

They usually receive short or one word answer.

They are use to check retention and memory.

It provides the measurement tool for thinking.

Revised Bloom's Taxonomy

Questions starting from what, where, how and why whose answer can be retrieved, recognized and recall falls under remembering.

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Remembering

The learner grasp the meaning of the information by interpreting and translating what has been learned.

Understanding

The learner make use of the acquired knowledge, facts, techniques and rules in a different way.

Applying

The learner breaks the learned information into its parts to associate informations by diffrentiating, organizing, attributing etc.

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Analyzing

The learner makes decision based on reflection, criticism and assessment through checking and critiquing.

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Evaluating

The learner creates new ideas and information using what have previously learned.

Creating

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​Happy teaching!

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Multiple Choice

What level of Revised Blooms Taxonomy is this?

"Defend the action of the main character."

• Creating

• Analyzing

• Evaluating

• Remembering

Multiple Choice

In Bloom's revised taxonomy, remembering, understanding and applying are..

• lower-order thinking skills

• higher-order thinking skills

Multiple Choice

What are the Cognitive Domain in the Revised Taxonomy?

• Psychomotor Dimension and Affective Dimension

• Knowledge Dimension and Cognitive Dimension

Multiple Choice

Making judgement based on criteria and standards

• Apply

• Evaluate

• Analyze

• Understand

Multiple Choice

What is the lowest level of the revised taxonomy?

• Understanding

• Remembering

• Knowledge

• Applying

Multiple Choice

Higher order thinking skills is also called critical thinking skills that categorizes lesson, activities and questions into pyramid.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which of the following descriptions works best for the taxonomic level of APPLY?

• Find information

• Make sense of information

• Use information in a new (but similar) situation

Multiple Choice

What do we call this kind of learning outcome?

• Myers-Briggs Taxonomy

• Gagne's Taxonomy

• Bloom's Taxonomy

• SOLO Taxonomy

Multiple Choice

Higher level of questioning allows student's brains to become more open minded.

• True

• False