Determining the Level of Teacher's Questions

1. Observe a teacher in the classroom.

2. Note his/her questions both oral and written.

3. Score him/her according to the level of questions that he/she asks from remembering to creating and metacognition and self-system thinking. You may also refer to written tests for samples of questions in the various levels.

4. Make tally, then get the total. Use Table 1 and Table 2 separately.

Table 1. Number of Questions per Level

ANALYZE

1. Which cognitive skill had the highest number of assessment questions? Lowest number?

The highest number of assessment questions is Analyzing and the lowest number is remembering.

2. What do these lowest and highest number of assessment questions) reveal about Resource Teacher's level of questions?

It means the teacher is intelligent because he/she is focus on analyzing than remembering.

3. Based on Kendall's and Marzano's taxonomy, which are the highest cognitive skills? Give an example of an assessment question for each of the two highest cognitive skills- metacognitive skills and self-system thinking.

Self-System Thinking and metacognition

Self-System Thinking- What advantages does it bring being an ICT literate?

Metacognition- How can a learning environment be improved through ICT?

REFLECT

If you were to rate yourself on HOTS - where will you be from a scale of 1 to 5 (5 as highest) where will you be?

I will at the scale of 4

As a future teacher, reflect on how will you contribute to the development of learners' HOTS?

Higher order thinking (HOT) is thinking at a higher level than memorizing information or repeating what has been said to you exactly as it has been said to you. HOT needs students to do more than just repeat facts; they must understand them, infer from them, connect them to other facts and concepts, categorize them, manipulate them, combine them in new or unique ways, and apply them as we search for new answers to new problems. This is how i will contribute to the development of learners HOTS.