Utilizing Various

Teaching Strategies to
Promote High Order
Thinking Skills (HOTS)

REFLECTIVE JOURNAL NO.10

Name: Harry Surigao BSED TLE 4A

“A thousand teachers, a thousand methods.”

Chinese proverb

Teaching strategies refer to methods used to help students learn the desired
course contents and be able to develop achievable goals in the future.
Teaching strategies identify the different available learning methods to enable
them to develop the right strategy to deal with the target group identified.
Assessment of the learning capabilities of students provides a key pillar in
development of a successful teaching strategy.

Engaging the learners on more complex ideas will help them to enhance their
thinking skills, giving them activities that boost their thinking ability is a great
help. There are different strategies to imply for divers learners all you have to
do is to choose what strategies will suit to them.
The first level is knowledge, and it involves students recalling the information
they learned in the previous class or discussion groups. As a teacher, I will ask
my students to define certain terms, methods, and principles. For example,
students should be able to define the term “inflation.” However, I will also ask
them to memorize facts or concepts, and this will involve extensive learning
activities. For example, at the end of the lesson students should be able to list
four causes of inflation.
Technologies are relevant to any learning institution. Therefore, for a lesson
to involve more cognitive process, it is necessary to use technology. Cognitive
techniques are used mainly to enhance or create new products. 
Just like the quotes there are really thousands of teacher so therefore there
are also thousands of strategies it will up to the teacher of what strategy that
he/she will use.