UTILIZING HOTS IN CLASSROOM INSTRUCTIONS WILFREDO F. MANANSALA

Education in the twenty-first century overviews digital literacy and life skills among learners. It encourages every student to apply higher-order thinking skills in the classroom teachings to gain knowledge, skills, and values as well. Higher-order thinking means to convey student’s ability to think critically, creatively and solve problems applying the knowledge and skills into new context. When learners have an easy grasp to connect efficiently with the different ideas, they put an advance cognitive learning. They need to encourage themselves to think beyond instead of recalling facts and information. This establishes the learning needs and evaluates the learning outcomes of the instruction. Since learners are the center in the educative process, they need to incorporate the use of higher-order thinking skills among learners. HOTS include synthesizing, analyzing, reasoning, comprehending, applying, and evaluating. The application of HOTS is all directed in various disciplines and learning areas. The role of HOTS lies in the teaching-learning process becoming the new techniques to stimulate responses from the learners during the classroom instructions. Providing high and challenging tasks for children makes them engage in higher learning outcomes. Moreover, the responses from the learners will depend on the art of questioning given by the teachers. The use of HOTS in education is based on Bloom’s Taxonomy to show understanding in the learning process based on their own methods. Through HOTS questions, students can train their brain to think creatively, critically, and innovatively. Teaching the students to memorize content for the sake of test while HOTS prepares learners as original thinkers and learners for life as well as achieve quality and structure learning results. Through HOTS question, children improve their critical thinking and transform them into better learners as well as achieve long-term teaching and learning goals. It builds up the understanding and thinking processes in which you have good judgment, evaluation, interpretation, and analyzation about what you read, hear, say, or write. Teachers boost their mind and heart to create an atmosphere highly conducive to learning using HOTS questions. They activate the mindset for the development of the brain to support student-learning. Teachers should also employ questions from learners for better learning experiences. Learners with critical and higher-order thinking skills can think clearly and allow them to perform problem-solving and decision-making more effectively. It also gives good dispositions, reflective judgment, and valid conclusions as they face real-world challenges.

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II of Cambasi Elementary School, Masantol North District

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