What are Higher-Order Thinking Skills?
Most educational experts break learned skills into two categories. Simple skills include memory and recall. Higher-Order Thinking skills are the skills that allow students to critically think,write, analyze, and solve problems. Categorizing items, comparing and contrasting ideas and theories, and being able to write about and solve problems are the skills associated with analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating ideas. These skills are often classified as Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, first described by Benjamin Bloom, an educational psychologist at the University of Chicago, in 1956. So active learning becomes the method of learning in the classroom meant to help students develop higher-order thinking skills in addition to the other skills currently taught in the classroom. Active learning, together with current teaching methodologies, would lead to a broader variety of learning outcomes for students in all kinds of classes. Also, it’s important to remember that active lear
