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My main goal this year as a teacher, is to teach my students the skills they need to be critical thinkers. Higher order thinking (HOT) is thinking on a level that is higher than memorizing facts or telling something back to someone exactly the way it was told to you. HOT takes thinking to higher levels than just 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. Using cooperative learning groups with stations for this process will aid students who are having difficulty with a question or an idea, as they will have a heightened opportunity to listen and learn from the discussion of his/her group members. This strategy is a remarkably efficient way to learn the material. My struggle comes when they need to write at their stations and no hard surface is near.

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My main goal this year as a teacher, is to teach my students the skills they need to be critical thinkers. Higher order thinking (HOT) is thinking on a level that is higher than memorizing facts or telling something back to someone exactly the way it was told to you. HOT takes thinking to higher levels than just 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. Using cooperative learning groups with stations for this process will aid students who are having difficulty with a question or an idea, as they will have a heightened opportunity to listen and learn from the discussion of his/her group members. This strategy is a remarkably efficient way to learn the material. My struggle comes when they need to write at their stations and no hard surface is near.

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