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Using Higher Order Thinking
Skills (HOTS) in the
Classroom

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HOTS in the
Classroom

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SESSION OBJECTIVES
At the end of the session, participants are able to:
1. discuss the concept of HOTS
2. evaluate the art of questions in the lesson
plan; and
3. reflect on the importance of applying HOTS in
teaching and learning process.

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What is Higher Order Thinking
Skills (HOTS)?

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Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)
Which of these questions or instructions do you think promote
higher order thinking skills (HOTS)?
_____ 1. Separate the mammals from non-mammals.
_____ 2. When was our country discovered?
_____ 3. Why is there night and day?
_____ 4. Name the different types of animals.
_____ 5. Explain how mosquitoes transmit disease.
_____ 6. Locate our school on the map.
_____ 7. Calculate the speed of sound.
_____ 8. Categorize the objects into tall or short.
_____ 9. Identify the hero in the story.
_____ 10. To what fruit would you compare your family and why?

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Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)
Why is there a need to integrate HOTS in
instruction?
How can teachers integrate HOTS in their teaching?
Explain the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy and its
relevance in the development of HOTS

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Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)
 These are complex thinking processes
which include analysis, evaluation,
synthesis, reflection and creativity.
 Refer to skills that allow students to
process information, apply them to
situations, and make sound decisions.

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Remember:
Retrieving, recognizing, and recalling relevant knowledge from long-term memory.
Understand:
Constructing meaning from oral, written, and graphic messages through
interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, inferring,comparing and explaining.
Apply:
Carrying out or usinga procedure through executing, orimplementing.
Analyze:
Breaking material into constituent parts, determining how theparts relate to one another and to an overall
structure or purpose through differentiating, organizing, and attributing.
Evaluate:
Making judgments based on criteria and standards throughchecking and critiquing.
Create:
Putting elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganizing elements into
a new pattern or structurethrough generating, planning, or producing.
Cognitive Behaviors (Process Dimensions)
in the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

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To improve the top 3 levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, try to
create objectives with the following verbs:
ANALYZING EVALUATING CREATING
Analyze Argue Adapt
Categorize Assess Compose
Compare Choose Create
Contrast Debate Design
Discuss Evaluate Develop
Estimate Judge Invent
infer Predict Modify
organize summarize propose

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Integrating HOTS

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Improve the question into HOTS.
1. Define photosynthesis.
HOTS Question
1. Why is photosynthesis not performed by human
beings?

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Improve the question into HOTS.
2. What factors are needed for photosynthesis to
happen?
HOTS Question
2. What will happen to plants if they are kept
away from the sun? Why?

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Improve the question into HOTS.
3. Does photosynthesis occur among humans?
HOTS Question
3. How is photosynthesis happened?

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Improve the question into HOTS.
4. What is the main energy source for
photosynthesis?
HOTS Question
4. What will happen if plants suddenly lose the
ability to do photosynthesis?

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