Higher Order Thinking Skills
Giglets provides text-specific Higher Order Thinking Skills questions. These can be assigned to individual pupil accounts within the Giglets platform, but can also be completed as a whole class or in smaller groups and used as a discussion prompt.
In addition to the text-specific HOTS questions Giglets is pleased to offer this additional resource: Transferable Higher Order Thinking Skills Questions. These can be used as a teacher prompt to support the examination of different texts.
Bloom's Taxonomy, a framework originally developed by educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom in the 1950s, classifies learning objectives into six levels, ranging from basic understanding to advanced skills like analysis, evaluation, and creativity. More recently, educational scholar Lauren Anderson has contributed to the evolution of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) by updating and expanding these concepts, specifically to remember, understand, apply, evaluate, analyse and create.
When learners engage with HOTS, they move beyond surface-level understanding and recall, delving into deeper, more complex cognitive tasks. This not only enriches their comprehension of texts but also equips them with metacognitive skills - the ability to think about their thinking. They learn to question, reason and reflect, making connections and drawing inferences, which are essential for grasping material and also for life-long learning and success in an information-rich world.