Strategies for Implementing HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) into the Elementary and Secondary Classroom

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    Register online at www.emporia.edu/jones or call 1-877-378-5433

    JONES INSTITUTEfor Educational Excellence

    A One-Day Workshop

    Featured Presenter

    Audience:Elementary & SecondaryEducators, Administrators, &Instructional Coaches

    Presenter:Ginger Lewman

    Date:Wednesday, January 30, 2013

    Time:8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

    Location:Jones Institute forEducational Excellence

    The Earl Center atEmporia State University1601 State, Emporia, KS(See website for directions)

    Cost:$115 (includes lunch and materials)

    Graduate credit is available (0.5 hr)

    Enrollment is limited to 35 participants

    Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) are not just for the gifted classroom

    anymore!

    In this session, participants will explore Blooms Taxonomy, compare

    it with Webbs Depth of Knowledge as featured in Common Core

    training, and practice various strategies for implementation into their

    content areas.

    Strategies for managing a differentiated classroom environment

    will be detailed, and teachers will leave with a plan in hand to start

    implementation the next day in their own classrooms.

    Ginger Lewman is an education consultant specializing in project-based learning,technology integration, gifted and high-ability learners, and creativity. She wasformerly the Director of the Turning Point Learning Center in Emporia, KS,where she worked to create the LifePractice Model, a rich, democratic learningenvironment utilizing project based learning and 1:1 laptops. She currently holdsa consultant position at ESSDACK in Hutchinson, KS. She also serves as theco-chair of the Professional Development Committee for the Kansas Learning FirstAlliance; is on the Board of Directors for Advocates for High-Ability Learners;is a member of the Kansas Council for the Social Studies; is a Google CertifiedTeacher; and is a Discovery Education Network STAR Educator.

    Elementary/Secondary Classroom

    Strategies

    THE TEACHERS

    COLLEGE

    HOTSfor Implementing

    into theHIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS

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