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Higher Order \">(CHINESE PROVERB)
AT LONG LAST...HIGHER ORDER THINKING FOR PRESCHOOLERS AND YOUNG
CHILDREN...
DO YOU WANT YOUR CHILD TO BE ABLE TO ENGAGE THEIR MIND IN THE HIGHEST
LEVEL OF THINKING?
DO YOU WANT YOUR CHILD TO BECOME A CREATOR OF NEW IDEAS, ANALYSER OF
INFORMATION AND GENERATOR OF KNOWLEDGE?
LOOK NO FURTHER....
Much of today's schooling and education fosters the regurgitation of
information, simply remembering or recalling facts and often rote
learning. This style of teaching and learning does not encourage your
child to actually "think" and use their brain in a meaningful way.
Higher order thinking skills can be typified by the top three levels
of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy (Analysing, Evaluating, Creating). At this
higher level, student thinking looks like designing, constructing,
planning, producing, inventing, checking, hypothesising, critiquing,
experimenting, judging, comparing, organising, deconstructing,
interrogating and finding.
Children who engage in higher levels of thinking are more likely to
want to learn, enjoy learning and gain satisfaction from their own
independent thinking.
Higher-order thinking by children involves the transformation of
information and ideas. This transformation occurs when children
combine facts and ideas and synthesise, generalise, explain,
hypothesise or arrive at some conclusion or interpretation. In helping
our children become producers of knowledge, our main instructional
task is to create activities that allow them opportunities to engage
in higher-order thinking.
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BRIGHT CHILDREN OF OUR FUTURE NEED TO BE ABLE TO:
* Solve problems
* Think creatively- invent, produce and generate new ideas and
knowledge
* Think critically- challenge, debate, refute
* Make decisions- compare, analyse, select, justify
* Analyse and evaluate information and ideas
* Plan for the future
DO YOU WANT YOUR CHILD OR CLASS OF STUDENTS TO BE ABLE TO PERFORM AT
HIGHER ACADEMIC LEVELS AND HAVE THE CONFIDENCE TO BE LEARNING RISK
TAKERS?
One of the main reasons some students do not achieve high academic
performance is that schools do not always require students to perform
work of high intellectual quality. It has been proven that by focusing
on high intellectual quality (higher order thinking skills) student
academic performance increases.
Higher order thinking skills encourage manipulating information and
ideas through processes which allow children to solve problems, gain
understanding and discover new meaning.
HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS PROVIDE SIGNIFICANT OPPORTUNITIES FOR:
* higher-level thinking
* complex problem solving
* open-ended responses
_\"THIS WORLD IS BUT A CANVAS FOR OUR IMAGINATIONS.\" _
(Henry David Thoreau)
WE MUST FIND ACTIVITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR YOUNG CHILDREN TO
LEARN TO THINK - THIS IS WHERE \"HIGHER ORDER z-index: 10; float:
left; "> The 100 ACTIVITIES written in 'HIGHER ORDER & CREATIVE
THINKING SKILLS - 3 TO 7 YEAR OLDS' aim to unlock independent thinking
in children. The fun and stress-free activities provide opportunities
for open-ended response where children are encouraged to look at
things differently and 'think outside the square.'
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OUR ACTIVITIES TO PROMOTE HIGHER ORDER THINKING
* EVALUATING - Justifying a decision or course of action, checking,
hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting and judging;
* ANALYSING - Breaking information into parts to explore
understandings and relationships, comparing, organising,
deconstructing, interrogating and finding;
* APPLYING - Using information in another familiar situation,
implementing, carrying out, using and executing;
* UNDERSTANDING - Explaining ideas or concepts, interpreting,
summarising, paraphrasing, classifying and explaining;
* REMEMBERING - Recalling information, recognising, listing,
describing, retrieving, naming and finding.
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AGE - 3 TO 7 YEAR OLDS
This age bracket is an INDICATION ONLY. Activities can easily be
adapted to suit younger and older children.
Parents and carers will need to sit with their child to discuss some
activities, whereas other children will be able to work through
independently.
This book is designed so that children think independently and freely,
without too much instruction or direction from adults and teachers.
WHO CAN USE THIS BOOK?
* PARENTS - to help their children learn to think at home, on long
car/plane/travel trips, in cafes, out to dinner at a restaurant,
waiting at the doctors surgery or wherever and whenever you please;
* TEACHERS, PRESCHOOLS AND HOME SCHOOLS - incorporated into class
units, as extension and enrichment activities, for gifted and talented
children, free time activities, activities to promote group
discussions and sharing ideas. Tasks can be used to brainstorm ideas
for a given project. Additional or optional homework tasks.
* ADULTS - some of these activities can be great "get to know you"
and "ice breaker" tasks for seminars and workshops. They provide
freedom to show individuality, values, personality and creative
thought processes that enhance discussion points. Provide everyone or
groups with the same task, then come together to show all the
different outcomes. This can show the powers of brainstorming.
* ANYONE INTERESTED IN HELPING CHILDREN LEARN TO THINK.
WHAT MAKES THIS BOOK SO UNIQUE?
* There is NO SET TIMEFRAME these activities need to be completed.
Activities can be used as frequently as you and your child desires.
* All activities are OPEN ENDED, there is no right or wrong answer to
each task. Your child's IMAGINATION CAN GO WILD in whatever way they
desire.
* NO PRESSURE OR STRESS is associated with the activities, they are
very relaxed where your child is free to think and explore their
thoughts.
* Activities pROMOTE CREATIVE THINKING and HIGHER ORDER THINKING
SKILLS. Children are encouraged to think outside the square and make
decisions for themselves to create unique and individual results.
* The activities are not designed to be completed in five seconds
with lots of direction from an adult. They are designed to take as
long as your child needs and wants to complete a task with
independence and creativity. Once the child knows the task, it can
take however long the child desires to achieve the wanted effect.
* The ACTIVITIES CAN BE USED OVER AND OVER AGAIN with a different
outcome resulting each time. Therefore, some people prefer to print
and laminate the activities. Children can be given non-permanent
markers to complete each task. When ready, wipe the laminated task
clean so it is ready to start again another time, or give to a sibling
or other child to try. This is also useful in a classroom setting
where enrichment activities are required at different times.
* If you have multiple children completing the same task, coming
together to view and discuss the different outcomes is a fantastic
STRATEGY FOR EVALUATION AND APPRECIATION OF OTHERS' THOUGHTS.
* Activities provide many OPPORTUNITIES FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION. This
can extend and enrich learning further. Discussions occur between
parent/teacher/carer and child or if old enough, children can discuss
in groups, as a class, in pairs or even individually to a group of
people. This provides a wonderful opportunity to discuss values,
morals and ethics with children, opening the lines of communication.
* Ultimately, the focus of the activities in 'HIGHER ORDER
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