THE ENHANCEMENT OF HIGH

ORDER THINKING SKILLS

(HOTS)
IN THE CLASSROOM SETTING
SETTING UP EXPECTATIONS
What do I hope to learn and unlearn from today’s
workshop?

What are

Why and how do I teach HOTS in the classroom?

What should I START, STOP, and CONTINUE doing in
my classroom to enhance High Order Thinking Skills
of my students?
1. Revisit Bloom’s Taxonomy and High Order
Thinking Skills
2. Identify the importance of using HOTS in
classroom setting
3. Demonstrate the use of HOTS in preparing a
lesson
 DEPARTMENTALIZED
ACTIVITY
Think of a lesson or topic in which you can apply
Higher Order Thinking Skills in your class. Use the
table below in presenting your lesson activity .

SUBJECT AREA: ______________ ACTIVITY

TOPIC:
Choose a rapporteur
to present the
Department’s Output
to the whole group
 OUTLINE
• ENVISIONING 21ST CENTURY
LEARNERS AND TEACHERS
• HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS
(HOTS)
• REVISITING BLOOM’S TAXONOMY
• THE “WHY” AND “HOW” OF
TEACHING HIGHER ORDER
THINKING SKILLS IN THE
CLASSROOM
• SOME STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE
INTRODUCTION
HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILLS

CREATING
EVALUATING
ANALYZING
APPLYING
UNDERSTANDING
REMEMBERING

LOW ORDER THINKING SKILLS

THE 21ST CENTURY LEARNERS
WHAT IS EXPECTED
OF THE TEACHER IN
THIS CENTURY?

“Learning to change and

changing to learn”
Characteristics of a 21st Century Teacher
What is HIGH ORDER
THINKING SKILLS?

This is when our learners use COMPLEX

ways to think about what they are
Learning.
HOTS requires learners to:
• Understand facts and infer from them
• Make connections to other facts and
concepts
• Categorize
• Manipulate
• Put together in a new and creative way
• Apply as they seek new solutions in
solving the problem
WHY HIGH ORDER THINKING
SKILLS?
 REFLECTIONS:

Why do we want to teach High Order

Thinking Skills?

Knowledge
Good thinking and
obtained
problem solving skills
through HOTS
are applicable in the
is more easily
real world
transferrable
 REFLECTIONS: Vary the
context in
which
students use a
Teach skills Think about Make newly taught
through real planning hypotheses skill
world
contexts
Ask the right Encourage Problem
questions but creative solving: Draw
Make also encourage thinking a picture
inferences questioning

Connect Help learners

Cultivate concepts
Use graphic creativity identify HOTS
organizers

How do we teach High Order Thinking

Skills?
Awareness of one’s thought process
Involves active control over the cognitive
processes engaged in learning

Planning how Evaluating

to approach a Monitoring progress
given comprehension toward task
learning task completion
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Going back to the Departmentalized
activity, craft a micro lesson plan using
HOTS.
2. Present a mini-demonstration
CONCLUSION AND KEY CONCEPTS
Understand what is meant by “high order thinking
skills.
HOTS is best taught through real-world contexts
and by varying scenarios in which students must
apply the newly acquired skills

A deeper conceptual understanding of ideas is

remembered longer and more transferrable to
other contexts
Application

Prepare a plan of action on the things that you will

START, STOP, and CONTINUE doing in the classroom to
enhance High Order Thinking Skills of my students?
Use this format:
STOP START CONTINUE
 "The greatest sign of a success fo
teacher...is to be able to say, "The
children are now working as if I did
not exist.“
– Maria Montessori
 "A hundred years from now, it will
not matter what kind of car I drove,
what kind of house I lived in, how
much money I had in the bank...but
the world may be a better place
because I made a difference in the life
of a child." -
Forest Witcraf