SESSION GUIDE

Session Title: Teaching to Think-Integrating HOTS in Classroom Instruction

Duration of Session 1 hour and 30 minutes
(10:30 AM – 12:00 nn)
Key Understanding to be  What is HOTS?
developed  Advantages and disadvantages of HOTS integration in teaching
and learning activities
Learning Objectives 1. Define Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)
2. Analyze revised Bloom’s Taxonomy for teaching HOTS
3. Integrate HOTS activities in the classroom setting.
Rescources  SEAMEO Module 8: Manage the Integration of Multiple
Intelligences and Higher Order Thinking Skills (Lesson 1)
 Activity Sheets
 Powerpoint Presentation

1. Introduction
 Ask the participants to read two learning scenario carefully.
 Ask the foloowing questions –
o “If you were a student, to which school would you
Activity
rather belong? Why?”
o In what school are students given opportunities to
really think and process, rather than absorb
information?
Analysis/Abstraction 1. Discussion on the topic using power point
a. What is HOTS?
b. Activity 1.1 - Asking HOTS questions
c. Benefits and Drawbacks of Integrating HOTS in
Instruction
d. Teaching the Essentials of HOTS
e. Activity 1.2 – Determining HOTS questions
f. Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy for Teaching HOTS
g. Activity 1.3 – Rephrasing non-HOTS questions to HOTS
Questions
h. Integrating HOTS activities in the Classroom
Application 1. Give the participants sample Lesson plan and determine if the
questions being asked is HOTS and if not, rephrase it to HOTS
questions.
Concluding Activity  Reviewing whats learned
 Sharing learning and insights gain from the session
 Pledge of Commitment