Are You A H.O.T. Teacher

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Are You A H.O.T. Teacher?

• Professional Development Session
• January 29, 2007

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Asking Open Ended Questions

• How do you rate yourself?
• Scale 1-10
• 1 5 10
• I try Sometimes A lot!

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Why is it important to teach Higher Order
Thinking Skills?

• The purpose of utilizing higher order thinking
  skills is to enable the kind of thinking that is
  transferable from curriculum to curriculum,
  subject to subject and all the way into life.

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Why do we struggle with H.O.T. questions?

• Students experiences and language/vocabulary
  background result in different levels of
  participation in higher order thinking tasks
• All children can perform on a higher level, but
  may need more exposure to types of questioning
  techniques

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How can you make a simple task H.O.T?

• Example How could you direct a student to put a
  book away in a designated place in the room using
  higher order thinking questions?

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Blooms Taxonomy Socratic Questioning

• One of the simplest and easiest ways to develop
  kids thinking skills is by learning to word
  questions in the right way
• Human thinking-skills are broken down in six/five
  categories

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Strategies

• Ask questions that require more than one right
  answer avoid closed questions
• Invite students to construct questions for an
  assignment collaboratively or individually
• Teach and play strategy games
• Give students opportunities to make connections
  require problem solving beyond routine
  calculations

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Problem Solving Critical Thinking Challenges
You CAN Do!

• Thinkercises!
• Tower Building

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Today in History!
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Mystery Items!
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Great Resources

• Websites See ALERT website for Places to Train
  Your Brain www.jackson.k12.mo.us/south/gifted/Ale
  rtProgram/AlertProgram.htm
• Brain Teaser sites, Puzzle sites
• Games Chess, Apples to Apples, Mastermind,
  Tipover, SET, Scattergories, Mancala, Twenty-five
  Words or Less, Mad Gab, Squint
• Books Lateral Thinking, Sudoku, Stories with
  Holes and Twists, Red Herrings, Matrix/Logic
  Puzzles, Brain Teasers

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What ideas work for you?What is something you
can take back to your classroom and use from this
presentation?