Department of Education

Region IX, Zamboanga Peninsula

Division of Zamboanga City
Baliwasan District

CAPISAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Zamboanga City

Session Guide on Strategies in Developing Critical Thinking and Higher Order Thinking Skills

Session Title Strategies in Developing Critical Thinking and Higher Order Thinking
Skills
Duration: 1 day (8:00 – 4:00)
Target Participants and Profile: Untrained Teachers (Grade 7-12)
OBJECTIVES:

Terminal: To develop strategies on higher order and critical thinking skills among teachers.

Enabling: At the end of the 1 day session, the tecahers are expected to:
a. explore 21st Century Thinking Skills;
b. share common understandings on the concept of higher order thinking skills;
c. identify the different components of critical thinking;
d. instill critical and higher order thinking skills through different games and activities;
and
e. apply appropriate strategies to reinforce critical and higher order thinking skills.

Output: Lesson Plan and demonstration of the different strategies that will enforce the development
of critical and higher order thinking skills.
Key Content/Input:  21st Century Thinking Skills
  The Concept of Higher Order Thinking Skills
 Critical Thinking Skills and its Components
 Games and Activities for Developing Critical Thinking Skills
 Application of Critical and Higher Order Thinking Skills in the Classroom

References: Wooi, T. (2014). Teaching Higher Order Thinking and 21st Century Skills. Retrieved from
https://www.slideshare.net/timothywooi/teaching-higher-order-thinking.

Corporate Training Materials, n.d. Sample Module: Components of Critical Thinking.

Retrieved from
http://corporatetrainingmaterials.com/doenloads/164965017/Critical_Thinking_Sample.pdf.

Global Digital Citizen Foundation, n.d. The Critical Thinking Workbook. Retrieved from
http://www.schrockguide.net/uploads/3/9/2/2/392267/critical-thinking-workbook.pdf.

AITSL. (2012, May 7). 21st Century Education[Video]. Retrieved from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA1Aqp0sPQo

Ragsdale, S. (2013, November 19). Critical Thinking 21st century [Video]. Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKUz20Rb8oc

TED-Ed (2016, March 16). 5 Tips to Improve your Critical thinking- Samantha Agoos [Video].
Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dItUG8GdTw

OBJECTIVES KEY UNDERSTANDING METHODOLOGY MATERIALS TIME ALLOTMENT

a. Explore 21st 21st Century Thinking Skills Activity Laptop and LCD Projector 30 minutes
Century Thinking  The Changing World The participants will do the
Skills; activity:
(Are you the Next World
Director?)
b. Share common The Concept of Higher Analysis Laptop 2 hours
understandings on Order Thinking Skills  Video Presentation LCD Projector
the concept of  Why do we want to (A video Speaker
higher order teach HOTS? presentation on Handouts
thinking skills;  How do we teach critical and higher
HOTS? order thinking skills
c. Identify the will be shown.)
different
components of  Lecture
critical thinking; Critical Thinking Skills and (Discussion on the
its Components different concepts
 Applying Reasons of higher order
 Open-mindedness thinking skills and its
 Analysis connection to
 Logic critical thinking as
one of its aspects.)

 Group Discussions
(Participants will
complete the
different activities
on the 4
components of
Critical Thinking
Skills)
d. Instill critical and Games and Activities for Abstraction Laptop 1 hour
higher order Developing Critical Thinking LCD Projector
thinking skills Skills  Lecture
through different  Wordly words (Discussion and
games and  Aliens Travel Guide Contextualization of
activities.  Talk it Out the different games
 Crazy Captions and activities for
  Awesome Anagrams developing critical
 You name it thinking)
 What would
happen..
 Explain yourself
 Making choices
 Sketch them out

f. Apply appropriate Application of Critical and Application Laptop 3 hours

strategies to Higher Order Thinking Skills  Lesson Planning LCD Projector
reinforce critical in the Classroom (Participants will be Long Bond Papers
and higher order tasked to integrate
thinking skills. the different Cartolina
strategies of critical Markers
and higher order
thinking skills.)
 Demonstration
(Participants will
demonstrate the
application of the
different HOTS and
CT strategies.)

Prepared by:

JUNILYN C. SAMOYA
English Teacher 1
Resource Speaker/Facilitator