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Getting HOT in your classroom. Drew Polly Anita Parker. Driving Question. How can we incorporate more higher-order thinking skills into our teaching?. HOTS- Think, Pair, Share. What are higher-order thinking skills that you already use in your classroom?
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Getting HOT in your classroom Drew Polly Anita Parker
Driving Question • How can we incorporate more higher-order thinking skills into our teaching?
HOTS- Think, Pair, Share • What are higher-order thinking skills that you already use in your classroom? • Describe 1-2 activities from this past year that integrated higher-order thinking skills • How do your students respond when they are required to use HOTS?
Let’s share…. • Inside-outside circles
HOTS- what do they mean? • Let’s take a look…. • ISTE Standards • Wordle
Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy • Where does most instruction in elementary schools fall? • Where do most state standards fall?
HOTS- alternatives • Alternatives for Revised Bloom’s
Planning and the Standards • Fill in the blank…. • The North Carolina Standards represent the _______ expectations for students in that grade. • A) minimum • B) maximum • C) typical • Why does this matter to us?
Planning • Integrated Instruction • Multiple Intelligences
Integrated Instruction • Science example
Integrated Instruction • Common Core State Standards in ELA • “The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects” • Emphases on: • Informational text • Writing in the content areas
1st Grade- Reading Informational Text 3. Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. What does this look like in a 1st Grade classroom in a subject other than ELA? Where might students struggle?
4th Grade- Reading Informational Text 9. Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about subject knowledgeably. What does this look like in a 4th grade classroom in a subject other than ELA? Where might students struggle?
Multiple Intelligences • Chart • How can we address MI’s and HOTS simultaneously?
So now where do we go…? • Technology is only as good as the activities that it supports… • What concepts do you teach do students struggle with? • What concepts do you teach that you need to integrated HOTS into? • Where can you tie literacy (ELA) skills across the content areas?