Hello, dear Teacher! 

Welcome to this Professional Learning Package in Mathematics! 

The Professional Learning Package (PLP) in Mathematics is composed of: 

✓Teacher’s Resource in Mathematics, which includes 24 assessment items involving 93 individual Questions; 

✓ a Mentor’s Guide. This Teacher’s Resource is designed to set up instructional support for you to implement teaching strategies effectively in helping learners develop higher-order thinking skills through the PPST Indicator 1.5.2 and Indicator 1.5.3; thus, responding to the demands of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and other international and national assessments. 

Developing Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) among learners is crucial to prepare them to face and manage the challenges of the 21st -century academic and social environment as well as to help them reach their full potential. 

Through this learning package, you will be able to determine and obtain essential methods and resources for equipping learners with lifelong critical-thinking competencies. Likewise, this learning package will be relevant to your professional practice in enhancing your knowledge and skills in the identified PPST indicators. 

A valuable approach for ongoing professional learning is for teachers to try to predict how their students are likely to engage with and answer questions, then check after using the assessment items if their predictions are supported. This reflective approach efficiently reinforces professional learning and teachers’ skills in designing high quality assessment items. Further, the SOLO-based assessment items address competencies and topics across the following grade levels: Grades 7, 8, 9, and 10. You may also adjust the complexity of the items to better suit the levels of knowledge, understanding and skills of your students. You are also encouraged to adapt the types of strategies for use with other Grade levels and curriculum content