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the Classroom
Imadeddin Almadhoun
 Objectives

• Define Creative Thinking

• HOTS and LOTS
• Do some Activities
 Creative Thinking

A way of looking at problems or situations from a fresh perspective

that suggests unorthodox solutions (which may look unsettling at
first).
Creative thinking can be stimulated both by an unstructured
process such as brainstorming, and by a structured process such
as lateral thinking.
( Business Dictionary website)
• How can you make your students think
creatively?
 HOTS & LOTS
• Thinking skills are categorized into higher-
order thinking skills and lower-order
thinking skills as follows:
Creating
Evaluating HOTS
Analysing
Applying
Understanding LOTS
Remebering
 LOTS
• Example Questions of thinking skills:
1. Remember: What happened in 1948?
2. Understand: Re-write the following
paragraph in your own words. / Paraphrase
the paragraph.
3. Apply: Show me a picture of a rat.
 HOTS
• Example Questions of thinking skills:
1. Analyse: What happened in 1948?
2. Evaluate: Make a list of pros and cons
about your teachers this semester.
3. Create: Write a song about healthy food.

• Teachers should use a mixture of HOTS

and LOTS when choosing their activities.
• When you select activities to use you
should have a criteria in mind such as:
1. Does it fit the learning outcomes?
2. Is it suitable for my learners?
3. Is it motivating?
4. How long will it take?
5. Is it a LOTS or a HOTS activity?
Classify the Following:

wordinterview
poster presentation
questionnaire
completion
gap fill
information transfer
word search
HOTS LOTS
 Developing Qs and Activities
• Research has shown that teachers give
students less than a second to answer.
• The ideal wait time for LOTS questions is
3 seconds and 10 seconds for HOTS.

• How much time do you wait your students to

give an answer?
 Developing Qs and Activities
• At the beginning of the presentation I used
one type of questions. Can you remember
it?
Predicting.

• This is an activity that helps our students use

more HOTS.
 Developing Qs and Activities
• Mention other activities that involve more
HOTS:
Debates and Puzzles for example
 Debate
• Opinion:
More males should be hired at
companies and other governmental and
private facilities that females.

Are you in favour of or against this

opinion? Why?
 Puzzles

• You’ll be handed some puzzles

Work in groups for better results

 Thank You

Thanks a lot for your attention