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This week’s focus is Bloom’s Taxonomy. I placed in your box a Bloom’s Circle Wheel and a sheet containing possible activities and questions for each level. This can also be found on Hopemiddle.weebly.com under Instructional Page and on the web at http://www.in2edu.com/downloads/thinking/blooms_taxonomy_chart.pdf. Please let me know if I can help you with Blooms.
How Can a Teacher Use Bloom's Taxonomy in the Classroom?
By Jessica Cook, eHow Contributor
updated: December 30, 2009
Benjamin Bloom was an educational psychologist who developed a list of intellectual levels that are important in the learning process. His list, known as Bloom's Taxonomy, is useful for teachers in a variety of ways. Teachers who use Bloom's Taxonomy to guide their instruction will find that their students prosper intellectually as a result.
Lesson Planning
1. When planning lessons, use Bloom's Taxonomy to create the activities you will have your students perform. Start at the beginning of the taxonomy and work your way to the end; sometimes the taxonomy is displayed as a pyramid, so you would start at the base and work your way up. Having your students work through the levels of the taxonomy helps them to familiarize themselves with the materials you present in your instructional units, going from basic activities to more advanced ones.
For example, the base of Bloom's Taxonomy is the knowledge level, where students learn basic information and are able to memorize and remember it. At this level of instruction, you would plan activities in which students try to memorize facts and recall them, possibly using flash cards or other memory devices. At the center of the taxonomy is the application level, where students employ problem-solving and the use of facts. At this level, students might explore the significance behind the information they have learned so far in their unit. At the end of the taxonomy (or the top) is the evaluation level, where students resolve conflicts and develop opinions. For this level, students might write a position paper using the information they have learned in the unit.
Direct Questioning
2. Bloom's Taxonomy can be used across several lessons in a unit, but it can also be useful within one single lesson or class period. When you review information with your students, use Bloom's Taxonomy to guide your questions. Start with knowledge-level questions and move to evaluation-level questions, or mix them up as you go along. Asking students questions on a variety of levels helps you to understand how well they know the material. It may also help you differentiate your instruction, if you determine that one group of students seems capable of evaluating while another group is still on the understanding level of the taxonomy with this information.
Assessments
3. Use Bloom's Taxonomy as a rubric to judge your assessments of your students. Old Dominion University's website has a useful list of the taxonomy levels along with the verbs that explain what students can do or understand on each level and a list of ways you would evaluate student understanding of a topic using the taxonomy. When you assign an essay or project at the end of a unit, determine whether your students have made it to an evaluation level of understanding with the topic (they are able to create something new using the information you have taught them) or if they fall within the parameters of one of the lower levels of understanding
Read more: How Can a Teacher Use Bloom's Taxonomy in the Classroom? | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/way_5809221_can-use-bloom_s-taxonomy-classroom_.html#ixzz11g5z7KnB
This week’s focus is Bloom’s Taxonomy. I placed in your box a Bloom’s Circle Wheel and a sheet containing possible activities and questions for each level. This can also be found on Hopemiddle.weebly.com under Instructional Page and on the web at http://www.in2edu.com/downloads/thinking/blooms_taxonomy_chart.pdf. Please let me know if I can help you with Blooms.
How Can a Teacher Use Bloom's Taxonomy in the Classroom?
By Jessica Cook, eHow Contributor
updated: December 30, 2009
Benjamin Bloom was an educational psychologist who developed a list of intellectual levels that are important in the learning process. His list, known as Bloom's Taxonomy, is useful for teachers in a variety of ways. Teachers who use Bloom's Taxonomy to guide their instruction will find that their students prosper intellectually as a result.
Lesson Planning
1. When planning lessons, use Bloom's Taxonomy to create the activities you will have your students perform. Start at the beginning of the taxonomy and work your way to the end; sometimes the taxonomy is displayed as a pyramid, so you would start at the base and work your way up. Having your students work through the levels of the taxonomy helps them to familiarize themselves with the materials you present in your instructional units, going from basic activities to more advanced ones.
For example, the base of Bloom's Taxonomy is the knowledge level, where students learn basic information and are able to memorize and remember it. At this level of instruction, you would plan activities in which students try to memorize facts and recall them, possibly using flash cards or other memory devices. At the center of the taxonomy is the application level, where students employ problem-solving and the use of facts. At this level, students might explore the significance behind the information they have learned so far in their unit. At the end of the taxonomy (or the top) is the evaluation level, where students resolve conflicts and develop opinions. For this level, students might write a position paper using the information they have learned in the unit.
Direct Questioning
2. Bloom's Taxonomy can be used across several lessons in a unit, but it can also be useful within one single lesson or class period. When you review information with your students, use Bloom's Taxonomy to guide your questions. Start with knowledge-level questions and move to evaluation-level questions, or mix them up as you go along. Asking students questions on a variety of levels helps you to understand how well they know the material. It may also help you differentiate your instruction, if you determine that one group of students seems capable of evaluating while another group is still on the understanding level of the taxonomy with this information.
Assessments
3. Use Bloom's Taxonomy as a rubric to judge your assessments of your students. Old Dominion University's website has a useful list of the taxonomy levels along with the verbs that explain what students can do or understand on each level and a list of ways you would evaluate student understanding of a topic using the taxonomy. When you assign an essay or project at the end of a unit, determine whether your students have made it to an evaluation level of understanding with the topic (they are able to create something new using the information you have taught them) or if they fall within the parameters of one of the lower levels of understanding
Read more: How Can a Teacher Use Bloom's Taxonomy in the Classroom? | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/way_5809221_can-use-bloom_s-taxonomy-classroom_.html#ixzz11g5z7KnB