Content
Thinking Skills Framework
Complex Thinking Skills
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Sub-skills
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Focusing
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Defining the problem,
goal/objective-setting, brainstorming
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Information gathering
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Selection, recording of data of
information
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Remembering
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Associating, relating new data
with old
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Analyzing
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Identifying idea constructs,
patterns
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Generating
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Deducing, inducting,
elaborating
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Organizing
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Classifying, relating
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Imagining
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Visualizing, predicting
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Designing
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Planning, formulating
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Integration
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Summarizing, abstracting
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Evaluating
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Setting criteria, testing idea,
verifying outcomes, revising
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The
upgrade project method given these complex thinking skills, the modern day
teacher can now be guided on his goal to help student achieve higher level
thinking skills and creativity beyond the ordinary benchmark of the student’s
passing, even excelling achievement tests. When the ordinary classrooms are
lacking with instructional kits, use the project method to bring students to
higher domains. In a project method, students work on projects with depth
complexity, duration, and relevance to the real world. There is already a
revised project method wherein the students would make decisions about what to
put on the project, how to organize information and how to package the outcomes
for presentation while the teacher guides and facilitates the learning process.
Experience
This new design framework for
developing thinking skills is new to me. It is certainly awesome to experience
beyond what was design by Benjamin Bloom, also known as Bloom’s taxonomy which
actually limits the potential of the students to develop more conceptual ideas.
As students, although the following thinking skills are simulated in classroom
(seldom), it is not that kind of very effective most especially if teachers are
being passive.
Reflection
21th Century learners are merely more innovative
more than we can imagine. We don’t have any idea how broad and enthusiast they
are in terms of learning. Shall we say, learning is unlimited with a different
learning style more than what we have known and discovered. Hence, intricate
styles were design to surpass the thinking skills and creativity for higher
order thinking skills, using an IT based projects in teaching. The following
will surely be implemented to students accompanied by technology assessment
throughout learning process. Since process is important than the product,
teacher must also navigate his/her students on the applications of complex
thinking skills and creativity during the activity to avoid revision and waste
of time.
Application
Prerequisite of being a facilitator in a classroom instruction is the
implementation of the following complex thinking skills. Otherwise, I will be
traditional teacher over and over again. If not, everything will end up
nothing. I will develop the higher order thinking skills and creativity of my
students using an IT based project in which learners can directly integrate
resources using a computer as a medium in the assimilation of learning.
Nevertheless, complexes are design to integrate and evaluate, rather than just
knowing the concept.
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