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HOTS was developed by Stanley Pogrow for Lower Level Students
Pogrow (1987) describes the HOTS curriculum:
"The HOTS program currently consists of daily lessons built around popular, commercially available
software that develops the following thinking skills:
The HOTS curriculum differs substantially from conventional approaches to using computers. Software is
not used to teach the above or any other speciϐic skills. Rather, software is used as a opportunity to create
'learning dramas': situations where students are highly motivated to complete a task and where questions
are developed to stimulate students to engage in the key thinking skills. These questions are not
necessarily related to the speciϐic goal of the software, nor is the speciϐic goal of the software important to
the learning process. The programs simply involve and intrigue the students.
DVHS Continuous School Improvement
GOAL #2
SęėĆęĊČĞ: HOTS
HĎČčĊė OėĉĊė TčĎēĐĎēČ SĐĎđđĘ
Purpose:
Reading for Essential
Understan ing
Metacognition
Developing and articulating strategies and testing
their effects in solving problems. Such articulation
both requires and develops sophisticated language
comprehension skills.
Inference
Building understanding of unknown concepts by
using information from known concepts. Again,
language skills help make the necessary
connec‐
tions.
Decontextualization
Generalizing information from one context to an‐
other. When poor learners encounter a new bit of
information, it is stored in memory as a concept
peculiar to the speciϐic context in which it was
learned. Problem solving requires an ability to link
related ideas.
Combining and Synthesizing
Information
(2015). L. King
. Based on the HOTS curriculum developed by Stanley Pogrow (1987). Central graphic, modiϐied from chatchaisurakram.
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