How to Increase Higher Order Thinking
Higher Order Thinking takes thinking to higher levels than restating the facts and requires students to do something with the facts — understand them, infer from them, connect them to other facts and concepts, categorize them, manipulate them, put them together in new or novel ways, and apply them as we seek new solutions to new problems.
Strategies for enhancing higher order thinking:
- Help students understand their own higher order thinking strengths and challenges
- Making sure students understand the critical features that define a particular concept and distinguish it from other concepts
- Name key concepts
- Tell and show
- Teach steps for learning concepts
- Go from basic to sophisticated
- Expand discussions at home
- Clarify the difference between understanding and memorizing
- Use pictures
- Teach concept mapping and graphic organizers
- Encourage questioning
- Reward creative thinking
- Use resources
The important thing is not to stop questioning ~ Albert Einstein
Karina @ NU
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