How To Increase Higher Order Thinking - 0 views
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Parents and teachers can do a lot to encourage higher order thinking, even when they are answering children’s questions
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Level 7. Encourage consideration of alternative explanations plus a means of evaluating them, and follow-through on evaluations.
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When brainstorming, it is important to remember all ideas are put out on the table. Which ones are “keepers” and which ones are tossed in the trashcan is decided later.
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Encourage Questioning. Divergent questions asked by students should not be discounted. When students realize that they can ask about what they want to know without negative reactions from teachers, their creative behavior tends to generalize to other areas. If time will not allow discussion at that time, the teacher can incorporate the use of a “Parking Lot” board where ideas are “parked” on post-it notes until a later time that day or the following day.
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a teacher may use bumper stickers or well-known slogans and have the class brainstorm the inferences that can be drawn from them.
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