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How to Cultivate Focus and Emotion to Our Students?

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The Strategies  of Cultivating Focus and Emotion to the Students The Students entering into the classroom have diverse background, condition or situation, and potency. Majority of them have difficulties in focus and emotion, and it is not easy to tell them to cncentrate or focus in learning. They enter into the classroom with empty brain, and they do not have any purposes to go to school. Therefore, the alternative ways or strategies are very urgent. There are ten strategies that can be used to cultivate focus and emotion to our students in learning. Before understanding the strategies, we should know the definition of focus and emotion in advance. A. The definition of Focus and Emotion 1. The Definition of Focus In the educational context, focus denotes the capacity to direct one's attention and concentration towards a specific objective, subject, or task. This entails the ability to eliminate distractions, sustain attention over time, and actively participate in the learning proc...
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How to apply "HOTS" in Learning process and Assesment System

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Implementation of "HOTS" in Learning and Assessment

a. HOTS in Learning Process

HOTS is a high order thinking skill. The implementation of "HOTS" in a learning process has to notice two main items, namely : stimulus and students' active participacient in learning. The stimulus is a device used to motivate, urge and stimulate the students to develop and grow their mind. The stimulus in the application of "HOTS" is very urgent, because by the existence of stimulus the students' thought  emrges to solve or find thing in the stimulus. The example of stimulus in the learning process.

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This picture can be used as a stimulus to develop, motive, grow or stimulate the students' thought in the activity of learning process. For example, the teacher asks for their students to write or tell their opinion about the beauty of nature in this picture.

To motivate or urge the students to think, express their view or thought  in the processs of teaching- learning activity is a part of implementation of HOTS.  In other words, the application of HOTS in the learning process the teacher should creat the stimulus. The most important, please give the chance the students to express their view or opinion. Dweck state that teacher with a growth mindset invest time and effort in their students and give students opportuniities to try, redo, and choose alternate approaches until they are successful. However, the teacher with a fixed mindset tend to label students based on their assumptions about how smart they think they are; they expect and foster succes for some students and hold lower expectations and offer lessser and mediocre task for others

The stimulus is an agent (such as an environmental change) that directly influences the activity of a living organism or one of its parts (as by exciting a sensory organ or evoking muscular contraction or glandular secretion.

2. HOTS in Assessment.

There are some items that should be noticed  in making assessment with HOTS, namely:
1.  The questios of HOTS  are not difficult questions, but  the questions requires the replies with
      process of thingking.
2.   The Questions should use  the level of the fourth, fifth and sixth cognitive (C4, C5, C6)
3.  The replies of the questions are not clear and  available in the text

    

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