DEVELOPING

HIGH ORDER
THINKING
SKILLS
(HOTS
)
DEVELOPING HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS)
 What are
HOTS?
How are we going to
develop them?

DEVELOPING HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS)

What is
HIGH
HOTS?ORDER THINKING SKILLS
(HOTS)
is a concept popular in American education. It
distinguishes critical thinking skills from low-
order learning outcomes, such as those attained
by rote memorization.

DEVELOPING HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS)

CRITICAL THINKING
The ability analyze and interpret information
The ability to evaluate ideas
To make decisions
To solve problem

DEVELOPING HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS)

 MAKING
Let’s look at the CONTACT
photo and discuss.
Where are these people?

What are they doing? Why?

Why do you think they can’t use

Their phones to make phone
calls?

How would you communicate

with the following people;
Your school friends, your family,
people who leave far away?

Analyzing Evaluating Creating

DEVELOPING HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS)

HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILLS
(HOTS)
is a concept popular in American education. It distinguishes
critical thinking skills from low-order learning outcomes,
such as those attained by rote memorization.

It is a way to help students think and not just memorize and

also improve their cognitive ability. These skills come to us
in the form of Bloom’s Taxonomy, which gives us a hierarchy
of levels that create higher order thinking skills.

DEVELOPING HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS)


is where students make judgments on
information and find the validity of the
idea or work.
a way for the students to solve
problems by applying their knowledge
and techniques.
Understanding
It is basically the ability to remember
previous learned material by recalling
facts, terms, and basic answers
 the students can combine information that they
Creating have together to create a new pattern or new
solutions.
Evaluating
lets the students break information into bits and
Analyzing pieces by identifying the cause or affect and
finding evidences to support their claims.
Applying
the understanding of facts and ideas by
organizing, comparing, interpreting
information that a student has learned
Remembering

DEVELOPING HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS)

HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILLS
(HOTS)
HOTS is based on various taxonomies of
learning, particularly the one created by
Benjamin Bloom in his 1956 book, "Taxonomy of
Educational Objectives: The Classification of
Educational Goals." Higher-order thinking skills
are reflected by the top three levels in Bloom’s
Taxonomy: Analyzing, Evaluating, and Creating.

DEVELOPING HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS)

  the students can combine information that they

H O T S
is where students make judgments on
information and find the validity of the
idea or work.
a way for the students to solve
Creating have together to create a new pattern or new
solutions.
Evaluating
lets the students break information into bits and
Analyzing pieces by identifying the cause or affect and
finding evidences to support their claims.

B a s Understanding
e or l o t s Applying
problems by applying their knowledge
and techniques.
the understanding of facts and ideas by
organizing, comparing, interpreting
information that a student has learned
It is basically the ability to remember
previous learned material by recalling Remembering
facts, terms, and basic answers

DEVELOPING HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS)

 Analyzing
The fourth level of Bloom's pyramid, involves students use their own
judgment to begin analyzing the knowledge they have learned. At
this point, they begin understanding the underlying structure of
knowledge and also are able to distinguish between fact and
opinion.

Lets the students break information into bits and pieces by

identifying the cause or affect and finding evidences to support their
claims.

Bloom’s Taxonomy Making Contact

DEVELOPING HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS)

Analyzing
HOW ARE WE GOING TO DEVELP THEM?
Some questions of analysis would be:

• Analyze each statement to decide whether it is fact or

opinion.
• Compare and contrast the beliefs of an author to
another author.
• Illustrate the differences between the American
alligator and the Nile crocodile.

Making Contact Bloom’s Taxonomy

DEVELOPING HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS)

 Evaluating
This involves students making judgments about the value of ideas, items,
and materials. In this level students are expected to mentally assemble
all they have learned to make informed and sound evaluations of the
material.

Bloom’s Taxonomy Making Contact

DEVELOPING HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS)

Evaluating
HOW ARE WE GOING TO DEVELP THEM?
Some questions involving evaluation might be:
• Evaluate the Bill of Rights and determine which is the
least necessary for a free society.
• Attend a local play and write a critique of the actor’s
performance.
• Visit an art museum and offer suggestions on ways to
improve a specific exhibit.

Making Contact Bloom’s Taxonomy

DEVELOPING HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS)

 Creating
The high-level thinking is when students put the parts of
information they have reviewed together to create new meaning
or a new structure. Combine information that they have
together to create a new pattern or new solutions. 

Bloom’s Taxonomy Making Contact

DEVELOPING HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS)

Creating
HOW ARE WE GOING TO DEVELP THEM?
Some questions in the educational setting that would involve
the synthesis level of higher-order thinking might include:

• What alternative would you suggest for ___?

• What changes would you make to revise___? 
• What could you invent to solve___?

Making Contact Bloom’s Taxonomy

DEVELOPING HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS)

Discussions

DEVELOPING HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS)

Thank You!
DEVELOPING HIGH ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS)