Education First Grant
The Education First Innovative Grants have supported reform initiatives in West Virginia for the past four years. Each year local school communities applying for an Innovative Grant have been encouraged to develop a strategic plan that coordinates all the programs and resources that a school may draw upon in creating a powerful learning community. These grants support the unified planning, development, and implementation of strategies by school communities to achieve high levels of student performance. Projects must address the unified needs and established goals in participating schools' Unified School Improvement Plans. Cameron Elementary was awarded an Education First Grant for $20,000 to develop and implement the Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) program in sixth grade.
HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) is a general
thinking skills program for students that generates gains in basic skills
while improving thinking ability and social confidence. It combines
the use of computers with a sophisticated curriculum and Socratic dialogue
to produce dramatic improvement. The specific information processing
skills developed by the HOTS program are:
1. Metacognition:developing,
articulating, testing and confirming or disconfirming strategies, hypotheses,
and predictions.
2. Inferring Information
from Context:figuring out unknown words and concepts from information,
particularly text.
3. Decontextualizing (Generalizing)
Information:making associations among related concepts in different contexts.
4. Information Synthesis:using
information from a variety of sources.
Please see our Title I page for more information about our HOTS program.
If you would like more detailed information
you can visit the HOTS website at: http://www.hots.org
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