Higher Order Thinking Skills

What they are, why they are important and how you can use them in class

HOTS

What you hope to get from today’s workshop

What are HOTS?Personal interestWhy should we care about them?HOTS in actionResource sharing

What are HOTS?

What are HOTS?

Slide here with explanations of each skill

Personal Interest

“Professional” EnquirySummary of Main Findings

Pupil Questionnaire:

Use skills all the time but are not aware of terminologySimple starters (understanding/remembering) helped to link learningIdentifying skill aided concentrationResources helped pupils to formulate questions

Teachers:

Structure of lessonsStructure of assessments

Rationale - CfE

Problems - SQA

Misuse of language of transferrable skills e.g. to apply knowledge of a particular moral theory is called analysis!

When drilling down to examine technique, skills words mean different things to pupils across each curricular area.

BTC 4 Kier Bloomer

‘highlighting the skills component’ of tasks ‘use a common language to describe skills’

Applying Bloom’s

Knowledge – List the items used by Goldilocks while she was in the Bears’ house.

Comprehension – Explain why Goldilocks liked Baby Bear’s chair the best.

Application – Demonstrate what Goldilocks would use if she came to your house.

Analysis – Compare this story to reality. What events could not really happen.

Evaluation – Judge whether Goldilocks was good or bad. Defend your opinion.

Creation – Propose how the story would be different if it were Goldilocks and the Three Fish.

Using the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Applying Bloom’sLittle Red Riding Hood

Question SkillIllustrate the main idea of the story on a poster.Rank the characters from best to worst and explain how you ranked them.

Write a new story by placing Red in a modern-day city.

What did Red do when she first saw the Wolf?

Tell what happened to the grandmother in the story.

How does the moral of this story compare to other fairytales?

Applying Bloom’sLittle Red Riding Hood

Question SkillIllustrate the main idea of the story on a poster.

Application

Rank the characters from best to worst and explain how you ranked them.

Evaluation

Write a new story by placing Red in a modern-day city.

Creation

What did Red do when she first saw the Wolf?

Understanding

Tell what happened to the grandmother in the story.

Knowledge

How does the moral of this story compare to other fairytales?

Analysis

Applying Bloom’sThree Little Pigs : Create a Question/Task for Each Skill

HOTS Lesson Ideas - Starters

HOTS Lesson Ideas – Extension Questions

HOTS Lesson Ideas – Tasks

HOTS Lesson Ideas – Plenaries