Linggo, Agosto 14, 2011

NO to PASSIVITY!



HOTS! This four letter word encompasses knowledge in its most effective sense. But one may not like HOTS questions as an effective assessment. More often than not, students would surely complain when a teacher would apply this in most of its test and quizzes.
Personally, my negative perception about HOTS changed. I learned to outdo my passiveness in learning. HOTS provide a higher learning outcome with the help of IT integrated lessons. I learned to become more open minded that a new challenge has arisen for today’s learners.
As an ALS Instructional Manager, I was able to view learning in its greater perspective. It affirmed my conviction that teaching is not simply to achieve learning objectives. Teaching is not just about laying down the lessons in the table. It is more on how the teacher facilitates the class especially when assessing the students learning path. Today, I am greatly convinced that assessment makes a teacher a true teacher.
Moreover, SPOON FEEDING is a NO. We have all the resources around us if we only exert effort in learning and become more adept in technology. IT is here to aid us to become more creative and productive with the help of the methods proposed by the use of computer-based as an integral support to higher thinking skills. Indeed, IT encourages the development of students who can do more than receive, recall, recite and apply the knowledge they have acquired.
In the end, as future educators, we must put into our minds and hearts that learning is an active process and that today’s students are expected to be not only cognitive, but also flexible, analytical and creative. It’s better to be HOTS than just to be passively COLD in dealing with the opportunities in this journey for learning.

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