HOTS

HIGHER ORDER THINKING

SKILL (HOTS)
 Higher order thinking is thinking on a level that is higher than memorizing facts or telling
something back to someone exactly the way it was told to you. 

 Higher-order thinking skills are thought processes that help you connect information in
meaningful ways and use those connections to solve problems. 

 Higher-order thinking skills can help you solve problems efficiently by anticipating
connections between different ideas. 
HOTS
TYPES OF HIGHER-ORDER
THINKING SKILLS
1. Critical Thinking
Critical thinking means using your own best judgment to understand and evaluate other people's
ideas.

For example: You may want to encourage your students to apply critical-thinking skills when
they’re reading online resources by making them evaluate what they’ve just read.
2. Metacognition
 Metacognition involves an awareness of how you think.
 When students engage in metacognition, they closely examine the processes they are using in
order to learn and retain new information. This involves understanding their own strengths
(such as note-taking) and weaknesses (such as procrastination) as students.
 For example, you may have a student who excels at memorizing grammar rules but doesn’t
always understand how to correctly apply the rules. In this instance, the student may wish to
supplement their learning process to include a wide variety of examples so that they
understand what they are memorizing.
3. Comprehension
Comprehension refers to the process of internalizing material and understanding the importance
of content. Comprehension is a necessary first step for many other higher-order thinking skills
because it ensures that you are making connections between ideas you have mastered.

For instance, a student in an education program needs to understand not only how to teach
students for certain situations but how their teaching skills can be applied to new situations.
4. Application
Application as a higher-order thinking skill happens when you apply a piece of information you
have attained to a similar issue or project.

For example, if a student learns the teaching techniques for elementary school students
necessary to make their teaching interesting, they might also be able to apply those same
techniques to higher level of students.
5. Evaluation
Evaluation and critical thinking often overlap because they both have to do with assessing new
information based on ideas or concepts you already know.
Evaluation allows you to place a relative value on a piece of information, which can help you
make decisions based on reasoning and evidence.

Students use evaluation to apply the knowledge they are learning in new ways. (Evaluate
learning process/ teaching process)
6. Synthesis
involves combining two or more ideas to generate a new idea that is more meaningful and
productive than any of the original ideas were on their own.

For example, if your student gathers relevant information about every way to study for a big
exam and then develops a new study plan, they are engaging in a kind of synthesis.
 Here is my unforgettable experience. One day I joined a story telling contest. Two of my friends
and I had been chosen to take a part in the final round at the district level. I was very happy and
eager to win the competition.
For preparation, I had to memorize and understand the story well.My teacher guided and taught
me pronunciation, facial expression and gestures. One day, before performing, my friends and I
were busy to prepare the props and costumes for the competition. Thing that me sad was my
teacher rented the props and costumes for my friends but not for me. My two friends had
beautiful costumes and luxurious props. Although I just wore the simple ones, I performed my
best to win the competition.
The competition started. I got number 29 and my friends got number 5 and 10. I was nervous but
I showed my best performance on stage. Lots of people took photos and videos of me. Finally,
anxiety was gone after I had finished performing. And then, the announcement came which made
three of us very uneasy. Luckily I was chosen as the first winner. I went to the stage and all the
judges congratulated me and gave a plague, trophy, and money. I was very happy.
 From the text it can be concluded that ….
A. Practice makes performance go well
B. Being nervous helps perform well on the stage.
C. Wearing simple clothes can help win the competition.
D. It is necessary to wear beautiful costumes for the competition
E. Beautiful costumes and luxurious props are the requirements for the competition.

 Forming an opinion that something is probably true based on available information

ICT
 ICT is a scientific, technological and engineering discipline and management technique used
in handling information, its application and association with social, economic and cultural
matters (UNESCO, 2002). ICT stands for Information and Communication Technologies.

 Teacher use ICT for making teaching learning process easy and interesting.
5 ICT SKILLS FOR
TEACHERS
 ICT Skills for Teachers #1. Basic computer literacy
 You don’t need to be a computer geek, but you do need to be use basic programs (at the very least,
Microsoft’s Word, Outlook and PowerPoint). The good news is that most computer programs share
common features and icons, which means skills learnt in one program are usually transferable.
 ICT Skills for Teachers #2. The ability to back-up
 Computers are the filing cabinets of the 21st century, and most lesson plans, resources and reports are
now created, shared and saved on computers. If you don’t want to lose your work, you need to know
how to back-up your files.
 ICT Skills for Teachers #3. Experience of online project work
 Most teachers as students to take part in group work at some point, but how often do teachers do this
type of work themselves? If you want to be able to really help your students, get involved in some
projects that are run online – either in or outside of school. Your experiences will stand your students in
good stead.
 ICT Skills for Teachers #4. The ability to nurture creativity – and mark it
 Most white collar companies want creative employees. With easy programs for word
processing, film and photo editing, music creation and drawing (to name just a few) computers
enable people create like they never have before, so you need to create assignments that
encourage to think in new ways. At the very least, you need to be able to download and review
the films, music, podcasts and 3D drawing they create.
 ICT Skills for Teachers #5. Social networking skills
 Whether you use Facebook or not isn’t important, but you need to have a basic understanding
of how online networks work and the netiquette involved. Your students will be chatting
online, writing blogs and sending tweets, and you need to be ready if they ask for guidance.
 Integrating ICT in education is an instructional choice by you the teacher and it involves
collaboration and deliberate planning in addition to always having you as the teacher to
participate.

 The integration of ICT in education is when you as the classroom teachers use ICT to
introduce, reinforce, extend, enrich, assess, and remediate student mastery of curricular
targets.
 Digital Books
 They are tools with digital textual content for which a screen should be used. Usually its use in
the classroom is accompanied by other types of content such as audiovisual or even online.
AI

1. Google Docs speech recognition
 The widely-known text processor Google Docs, has recently added the possibility of speech editing. At the outset the system only understood
simple commands, but now the voice recognition feature has evolved and is currently a free, mobile-friendly tool that can assist the teacher
during feedback in conversational activities. I proposed this usage to my students as a way of evaluating the intelligibility of their speech, as it
was able to give me direct feedback. As is the case with all tools used within an educational context, it will be up to teachers to blend their own
creativity with the app usage to maximize student benefit.
 2. Interacting with Google Assistant
 Why not have your students interview Google Assistant? They can ask the assistant simple questions such as ‘What’s the weather like in …..?’,
‘What time is it in ..…?’ This is a great way to test the intelligibility of their pronunciation. Students can take turns asking the virtual assistant
questions following a question or model set by the teacher. Encourage them to take notes and at the end of the task, ask them to share their
findings with classmates from other groups.
 3. Using Google Maps to practice directions in English
 Tools with integrated AI are not only helpful for practicing a student’s pronunciation. Google Maps is a navigation, mapping app that offers
satellite imagery. When teaching directions and how to get to places, try to make use of this popular app that is available on most mobile
devices. After teaching the basic commands such as: turn right/left, cross the street, next to, go straight ahead, opposite to, etc. list nearby
places on the board. Organise the students in pairs and trios and make sure there’s at least one person whose phone has Maps installed. The idea
is to have students research how to go from their location (school) to the places listed, one at a time. By being able to see the map, they will be
more confident when telling their classmate how to get to the desired place.
APPS
 6,000 Words – The best for vocabulary

 When it comes to expanding your vocabulary, often the simple way is the best! FunEasyLearn have created a fun app which helps you learn
new words with text and pictures.
 Beelingu – The best for reading

 This story-telling app is excellent for practising reading. It’s cleverly designed to tell a story in two different languages side by side. First you
read in English, then you can check in your own language. The karaoke-style text will help you listen and read-along at the same time.
 HelloTalk – The best for speaking

 Don’t have a suitable speaking partner? No problem! HelloTalk is a free app which connects you with over 15 million members. That means
you’ll definitely find a native speaker to teach you English. The only catch is you have to teach them your language in return – it works like
a language exchange.
 Grammarly – The best for writing

 There are lots of apps out there which will help to improve your writing. And ones like HelloTalk even connect you with a native speaker.
But if you’re looking for instant corrections, Grammarly is your best bet! Not only does it check for mistakes, but it also gives an
explanation of your error so you won’t make the same error again.
 Online quiz:

Socrative, Kahoot, Quizziz, etc

LITERACY
 Beyond its conventional concept as a set of reading, writing and counting skills, literacy is
now understood as a means of identification, understanding, interpretation, creation, and
communication in an increasingly digital, text-mediated, information-rich and fast-changing
world.

 Literacy is also a driver for sustainable development in that it enables greater participation in
the labour market; improved child and family health and nutrition; reduces poverty and
expands life opportunities.

 Literacy practices is the way in which people interact with texts and the meanings these hold
for them and how these are tied up with individual identity, personal relationships, community
membership, religious practices and political manoeuvring. 
 Some examples of literacy domains are home, work and social networks and examples of
literacy practices are letter reading, filing, writing, diary writing, list making, newspaper
reading and even filling a lottery slip.
 A further relevant term named multiple literacy i.e. is a diverse range of competences which
include text literacy, media literacy, information literacy, computer literacy, visual literacy,
multicultural literacy, emotional literacy, etc.
 Summarize texts
 End a story
 Creative Writing
 Character analysis
 Design posters
 Discussion
 Spelling lists
 Extensive Reading
 Etc