Higher- Order thinking is based off of Bloom's taxonomy. Currently, it is our school-wide goal to incorporate higher- order thinking questions into our lessons. The connections students make and apply are outstanding when presenting them different questions. One area I stumbled with was incorporating higher- order thinking with ELL students. However, the benefits outweigh the challenges. On page 238, it states, "Incorporating opportunities for higher order thinking using the ICB method develops a wider range of discourse skills among CLD students than does traditional segregated skills language instruction." That is when I came across a wonderful blog. On it, it discusses the importance and strategies of higher order thinking with ELL students. It is definitely worth a look!
http://esl-methods.wikispaces.com/Higher-order+Thinking
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