Getting HOT in your classroom

Drew PollyAnita Parker

How can we incorporate more higher-order thinking skills into our teaching?

Driving Question

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?

HOTS- Think, Pair, Share

Inside-outside circles

Let’s share….

Let’s take a look….

ISTE Standards Wordle

HOTS- what do they mean?

Where does most instruction in elementary schools fall?

Where do most state standards fall?

Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

Alternatives for Revised Bloom’s

HOTS- alternatives

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 and the Standards

Integrated Instruction Multiple Intelligences

Planning

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

Integrated Instruction

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?

Chart

How can we address MI’s and HOTS simultaneously?

Multiple Intelligences

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?

So now where do we go…?

Questions…?