Building Students’ Creativity in Writing through HOTS Learning

Abstrak

In learning English, there are many ways to build students’ creativity in writing.
Teachers out there have their own authority in designing methods and materials which
are commonly used to provoke it. Besides teachers can also use Higher Order Thinking
(HOTS) learning design as a way to build students’ creativity in writing. Higher Order
Thinking Skills include analysis, synthesis, evaluation and require mastery of previous
levels, such as applying routine rules to familiar or common problems (Keshta, 2013).
The implementation of it in the learning process surely will be in line with the learning
target. Nowadays, HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) becoming more popular
because it was clearly stated and used in last year National Exam. Thus, through this
paper I will discuss some HOTS activities in learning which can be used to build
students’ creativity especially in writing.

Keywords: HOTS Learning, Writing.