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What is Blooms Taxonomy?

What is Bloom's taxonomy and how can aachieve the ultimate goal of becoming
teacher apply Bloom's taxonomy to classroomlifelong  learners.
lesson  plans?
There are many ways in which teachers can use
Bloom's taxonomy was originally createdblooms taxonomy to help create more focused
Benjamin Bloom for categorizing andlesson plans and help students use higher
classifying levels of intellectual learningorder thinking skills. By following the
that commonly occur in the classroom setting.Bloom's taxonomy chart teachers can pinpoint
Bloom's taxonomy contains three overlappingwhat they will teach and how they will go
domains: the cognitive, psychomotor, andabout teaching it. For example, take a
affective. Within the cognitive domainsocial studies lesson plan on the use of the
Benjamin Bloom identified six levels thatatomic bomb to end WWII. A teacher could
have become commonly known as Bloomsteach this lesson by having students read and
Taxonomy.memorize important key terms and facts.
However, even if the teacher uses a variety
The six levels of Bloom's taxonomy, fromof teaching strategies to help increase
lowest to highest, are: knowledge,reading comprehension, the problem is the
comprehension, application, analysis,teacher is only focusing on the lower order
synthesis, and evaluation. These differentthinking skills. The students may be able to
levels of Bloom's taxonomy have become anregurgitate the information back on the test,
extremely useful guide for teachers inbut the student is not using the higher order
planning classroom lesson plans and classroomthinking skills that will help that student
objectives. You can even find a list ofretain the information for the long-term and,
verbs to help teachers design lesson plans inmore importantly, help the student learn to
the Bloom's Taxonomy Verb Chart located onthink  for  himself.
this  web  site:
A simply way to teach the same lesson, but
It is vitally important that teachers do notalso address the higher order thinking skills
just teach lower order thinking skills at theis to simply have the students write a
bottom of Bloom's taxonomy such as knowledgeparagraph "evaluating/judging" Truman's
and comprehension, but also teach higherdecision to drop the atomic bomb. The
order thinking skills at the top of Bloom'steacher can still have the students include
taxonomy such as evaluation. When studentsthe key terms from the lesson in the
are evaluating and judging and using theparagraph, but by having the students also
higher order thinking skills they are moremake an argument and support that argument
likely to retain information, perform betterthe students are also addressing the higher
on standardized tests, and most importantly,order thinking skills of Bloom's taxonomy.



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