Transcript Getting HOT in your classroom

Drew Polly
Anita Parker
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How can we incorporate more higher-order
thinking skills into our teaching?
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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?
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Inside-outside circles
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Let’s take a look….
ISTE Standards
Wordle
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Where does most
instruction in
elementary schools
fall?
Where do most
state standards
fall?
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Alternatives for Revised Bloom’s
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Fill in the blank….
The North Carolina Standards represent the
_______ expectations for students in that
grade.
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A) minimum
B) maximum
C) typical
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Why does this matter to us?
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Integrated Instruction
Multiple Intelligences
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Science example
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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
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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?
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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?
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Chart
How can we address MI’s and HOTS
simultaneously?
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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?