One of the best ways to teach students how to apply the steps of a thinking process is to model how to do it using familiar content or a simple example through direct instruction.
We will model how to do this by showing you how to explicitly teach the five Higher Order Thinking Processes using a simple example — buying a car. By deciding the why, what, when, and how of car buying, you will have an opportunity to apply each process using content that is familiar and relevant.
