HOTS

For two days, 21 and 22 oct. i joined about 4o lecturers from KMK.KMP and KMteknikal pendang attending a workshop on HOTS - or Higher Order Thinking Skills which has been practised for quite some time...Dr Norashikin from IAB was the presenter. her symple,laidback styles helped us sailed through the mind -boggling activities....which was ok as she surely knew that we would fall asleep in she just gave us facts.....we lecturers are of higher thinkers....so called....so the activities reuqired some thinking of higher level and we were really into it.
What made me proud was that our group...Yellow Hat won 3 times in the competition, thus making us the winner. what actually got us into the whole thing was the cooperation among all 10 members, thus making the tasks enjoyable and meaningful.
we started from HOTS , moved to De Bono 6 hats and ended up with Tony Buzan's mind mapping...these are all very related to our job as lecturers where we have to face students of different levels, mindset...ability and many more differences.....
Even though i arrived home suffering from incessant headaches, i was happy i attended the workshop which actually helped to put me on the track again, after being derailed a few times....sometimes forgetting my role as an educator......
I glad it is over though as i can continue with my research which i believe is also something hot and getting hotter each day till the day i graduate.......