Higher Order Thinking skills are!
The Common Core State Standards have been developed to be “Inclusive of rigorous content and applications of knowledge through higher-order skills, so that all students are prepared for the 21st century”. So, is this something new that just came along with the Common Core State Standards? Not really. If you have studied learning taxonomies such as Bloom’s, then you have been at least exposed to ways that educators can be HOT teachers!
By applying higher-order thinking skills, the idea is that students are using more cognitive processing. These skills include such things as: critical, logical, reflective, metacognitive, and creative thinking; as well as analysis, evaluation and synthesis (creation of new knowledge). Continue reading →