THE USE OF HOTS IN CLASSROOM INSTRUCTIONS

ANGELA V. ASUNCION

Teaching-learning process is vital for learners to acquire the necessary knowledge, skills and values which makes them ready to face the challenges of the real-world. Education is a lifelong process in which individuals learn in formal and non-formal settings in school. It is an ongoing exploration of knowledge and skills needed to develop 21st century learners.\ Many educators believe that education is a continuous learning process. This establishes the learning needs and evaluates the outcomes of the instruction. Since learner is the center in the educative process, they need to incorporate the use of higher order thinking skills among learners. Higher order thinking means the transfer of student’s ability to think critically and solve problem applying the knowledge and skills into new context. When learners have easily grasp to connect efficiently with the different ideas, they put an advance cognitive learning. They need to encourage to think beyond and promote critical thinking skills instead of recalling facts and information. HOTS include synthesizing, analyzing, reasoning, comprehending, application, and evaluation. Basically, the application of HOTS is all directed in various disciplines and learning areas. The role of HOTS lies in the teaching-learning process become the new techniques to stimulate responses from the learners during the classroom instructions. By providing high and challenging tasks for children make them engage to higher learning outcomes. By using HOTS question, children improve their critical thinking and transform them into better learner as well as achieve long-term teaching and learning goals. The use of HOTS in education is based on the Bloom’s Taxonomy to show understanding in the learning process based on their own methods. Through HOTS questions, students can train their brain think creatively, critically, and innovative. Rather teaching the students to memorize content for the sake of test, HOTS prepares learners as original thinkers and learners for life. Ultimately, teachers are encouraged to create atmosphere highly conducive to learning using HOTS question. They activate the mindset for the development of the brain to support student-learning. One must keep in mind that teachers should utilize questions to learners for better learning experiences.

-oOoThe author is Teacher II at Palimpe Elementary School,Masantol North District