Kick Start Your School Year HOT!

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Higher Order Thinking Strategies and Processes

Ideas for Classroom Use

1.    Myth or Fact – Design statements related to the thinking strategy and have students respond as to whether they consider the statement to be a fact of a myth and explain why.

2.    Concept Card Mapping – Provide key words related to the thinking strategy on cards (or paper which students cut up to create their own cards). After arranging cards to show how they think the terms are connected, students glue them down, add lines and descriptions on the lines to show relationships and connections.

3.    Step by Step – Present a simple task such as compare and contrast two movies.  Have students list the step they would use to complete the tasks, rather then complete the task itself.

4.    Quick Write – Have students do a quick write to describe three components of using a strategy effectively.  What is it? Why is it used? How is it used?

5.    Frayer – Students provide examples, non-examples, describe the importance, and describe the meaning of the thinking strategy in a Frayer graphic organizer

Higher Order Thinking: Increasing the Rigor of Learning Focused Lessons. Boone: Learning Focused Solutions, 2013. Print. Used with permission.