Higher Order Thinking Skills

Blooms Taxonomy & TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills)

Klein ISD Mission Statement

Engaging learning experiences & resources Safe & Nurturing environment

Students will demonstrate:

Academic achievement

Productive citizenship
Career development Healthy lifestyle

Lifelong learning

Tools to accomplish Mission

Technology Higher Level Thinking TEKS TATEKS

Blooms Taxonomy

Knowledge Evaluation

Whats Hot; Whats Not

- Analysis - Synthesis - Evaluation -Problembased learning

Hot
Worksheets Chalk & Talk Goals of recall & application All individual work

Not

Story Model Own statement Comparison of like or unlike items Speech Photograph Conclusion or implication Tape recording based on data Events Diagram A map Cartoon Graph Casual relationships Skit Analogy Summary A list People Drama Outline Photograph Radio change infer relate Recordings explain Sculpture convert extend Diagram defend A painting predict use transform rewrite Newspapers Illustration find A solution give examples distinguish apply generalize Magazine articles define A project express A drama illustrate solve summarize change label Forecast restate match sketch describe Television shows interpret choose memorize paraphrase A question modify compare recognize A paper which show dramatize Test readings record locate follows an discover classify list Compreoutline Films name prepare construct A meeting hension tell recite relate produce A play Shifting make smoothly from demonstrate build select identify Filmstrip one gear into paint illustrate another Application choose defend Questionnaire Evaluation Analysis compare contrast classify analyze appraise compare Self-evaluation Report Survey survey distinguish deduce critique Recommendation select categorize subdivide A conclusion recommend decide checked differentiate attributes Group discussion Synthesis weigh concludeconsider Diagram Graph probe infer separate Conclusion criticizeevaluate plan Parts of a combine investigate select summarize invent arrange propaganda inquire take apart support role-play Evaluation statement judge revise compose experiment relate identified hypothesize design Survey point out collect An argument rate construct develop produce list broken down create A standard A syllogism broken predict formulate compared originate down organize A standard Article A word defined Experiment established Game R. Taylor (no date). Invention Song Book Machine Valuing Bloom's taxonomy - circle chart. Set of rules, principles, or Report Current, Best Instructional Strategies for Your Play standards Gifted and Highly Capable Students. Speculate on or plan alternative courses of Bureau of Education Research, Bellevue, WA. action Formulation of a hypothesis Court trial

Synthesis

Your turn
In campus teams, write an objective at this level:

Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application Comprehension

Knowledge

Your turn
What technology would use at each level?

Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application Comprehension

Knowledge

Think about this

Where are the majority of your objectives & lessons?

? ?

Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application Comprehension

Knowledge

Level III
Transforming

Critical tool for problem-solving & higher-level thinking Important replacement

Level II
Adapting

Level I
Literacy

Just basic use

Rebuild current lesson plans with HOTS & a different perspective for how technology is used in the lessons.
And transform those basic lessons from building blocks

To

Level III of the Technology Project-based pyramid

Lets review this site:

http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=classproductivity

TEKS TAKS KNOW

TEKS
Chalk/Talk Worksheets Hands off

TAKS

Sage on Stage

Work alone Drill & Kill

KNOW

TEKS TAKS KNOW

TEKS
Chalk/Talk Worksheets Hands off

TAKS

Sage on Stage

Work alone Drill & Kill

KNOW

Putting it all together TEKS HOTS

TECH

Engaged

Higher-level lessons built on all 6 levels of Blooms taxonomy & better use of technology
Engaging learning experiences & resources Safe & Nurturing environment

Students will demonstrate:

Academic achievement

Productive citizenship
Career development Healthy lifestyle

Lifelong learning