What is higher order thinking?

"Every day thinking, like ordinary walking, is a natural performance we all pick up. But good thinking, like running the l00-yard dash, is a technical performance... Sprinters have to be taught how to run the 100-yard dash; good thinking is the result of good teaching, which includes much practice."

David Perkins, Howard University

 

*Read the following sentence. Then take the thinking skills test.

 

The griney grollers grangled in granchy gak.

 

The Griney Grollers Thinking Skills Test

1. What kind of grollers were they?

2. What did the grollers do?

3. Where did they do it?

4. In what kind of gak did they grangle?

5. Place one line under the subject and two lines under the verb.

6. In one sentence, explain why-the grollers were grangling in the granchy gak. Be prepared to justify your answer with facts.

7. If you had to grangle in a granchy gak, what one item would you choose to have with you and why?

 

**Moral:

Students can answer low-level
questions without thinking.

Students enter/exit classrooms
with no more understanding of
what they've learned than what the
"The Griney Groller"
taught you!