What is Higher Order Thinking?
September 30, 2005Tony’s session leading the team on Higher Order Thinking raised a number of questions.
Do teachers take enough risks in their questioning? Do we allow pupils the latitude to address higher order thinking skills by asking questions to which we DON’T know the answers? Analysis that there might not even be an answer, or that more information might be required to find an answer and subsequently deducing what other information might be necessary, to make an evaluation of the validity and reliability of the final outcome.
ICT helps to scaffold lower order-thinking skills so that higher order ones can take place. Let’s not throw out creativity.
For homework, Tony suggested that we might like to distil the Nesta “Thinking Skills Review” for teachers, and even further for children. We agreed to at least have read the document for next week, and it might be an idea to start using a wiki (DJ will set up) for this document creation.
(…to be continued)
