Module 4: Thinking Skills forum summary

Amaia: About Unit 2, for me, all the things I read are very ______________

Olite - I like the activity where a group of students crash landed on an island and they have to think how to survive. I think it is a very good _______ exercise to develop their thinking skills and creativity.

Alazne (about balloon debate) Firstly, we could analyse and work each role´s positives and negatives to give them the key vocabulary and to familiarise with the activity. Once they feel more confident, we could do the activity ______________________________

Ander - (about using HOTS) this kind of work can be very engaging. I think that this kind of work ask learners for different efforts which ____________________________________

Itziar - (about other HOTS activities) I use _______________, done by me and later by the students. I think that the creative part can be exploited there.

Diego - Many textbooks have LOTS activities - I naturally adapt them so that they can be more _________________

Idoia (about the flashcards video I posted) I found the video very interesting. It´s amazing how can an activity change just ___________________________, isn´t it?

Ederne - The most interesting thing about these exercises is that there is always the possibility to ________ them and make an extension of the activity.

Gorka - (about the things in a bag task) I see the _______ of Idoia factible to do and I'm going to do it sure!

Ziortza - when learners do a "complete the ________" activity they work in small groups of 2 or 3 and it is very interesting to see how students get involve, share ideas, respect their partners opinions....... I think it is enriching.

Iñaki - the more we use HOTS from ________________ the better

Leire - what I found interesting is that with some simple changes (gap-filling, word/sentence completion, dictation), these activities can go from __________________.

Usoa - my favourite activity was the first one where the teacher makes some questions to the group and they have to think the teachers questions in groups in order to get the right answer. Apart from being _____________ they also review some vocabulary.

Miren - in another course on Bloom's taxonomy some teachers were quite reticent arguing that if they have to teach all the content in the curriculum, there's not time for this. ____________________________________________________