How do emotions affect thinking?
Emotion has a lot to do with thinking. Mainly because the amygdala's main role is to encode emotional messages into the long-term memory. Therefore noticing that emotions can easily assist into the cognitive learning because if we learn about things we like, we are more likely to maintain attention and interest and move to a higher level of thinking.
What teaching have you observed that promotes higher order thinking?
Sousa states that if we challenge our students them with activities that require higher level thinking, we as teachers will spark interest of positive feelings. Students have occurred where learners generate positive emotions, attention broadens, and critical thinking skills enhance. I noticed this in my math classroom at Edmund's. The teacher handed out a worksheet full of problems about percentages and other questions pertaining to a pie graph. The students were challenged by this assignment, however the students were very engaged and determined to get the assignment completed. This promoted a higher order of thinking which also made the students understand these concepts a lot easier.
