1. What is lower order thinking? higher order thinking?
2. In your classroom, both types of thinking will need to be cultivated in your students. What are some strategies that a teacher can use to foster both lower order thinking and higher order thinking?
1. High order thinking skills are mental processes dealing with creating, evaluating, and analyzing. Whereas, low order thinking skills are mental processes dealing with applying, understanding, and remembering.
ReplyDelete2. The low order thinking skills of remembering and understanding are going to be used a lot in my classroom. This type of thinking can be things like remembering material from a skill I taught, and actually understanding it so they can move onto the next skill. They also will be able to apply what I have taught them so that goes under low order thinking skills. The high order thinking skills like evaluating will also be used a lot in my classroom. I will ask my kids to evaluate why they think something instead of just asking them yes and no questions.