What Is Bloom’s Taxonomy? A Definition For Teachers
Bloom's Taxonomy is a hierarchical ordering of cognitive skills that can, among countless other uses, help teachers teach and students learn.
When we focus on teaching content rather than teaching the child, we lose the child. When seeking improvement, we seek to improve how we’re doing what we’ve always done, but more of it–faster and more efficiently. We break the learner and their sense of self to fit in stuff. We seek to improve our collective processes to cause more learning, which makes as much sense as teaching students how to read instead of why.
Terry Heick is founder and director at TeachThought.
Terry is an education expert focused on critical thinking, critical literacy, and modern knowledge demands.
As an adviser, he helps schools, districts, parents, start-ups, and tech developers navigate the dynamic and often misunderstood ecology of progressive teaching and learning. By helping these ‘pieces’ understand how one another functions (in the classroom and beyond), he is able to provide a comprehensive view of the existing context, and future possibility.
In addition to his work at TeachThought, Terry has worked on a digital citizenship project with the White House and a range of projects with Microsoft, Pearson, Institute for Habits of Mind, ASCD, Edutopia, Adobe, Pixowl, The Project Skool Documentary, and others since leaving the classroom ten years ago.
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When a society changes, so then must its tools.
Definitions of purpose and quality must also be revised continuously. What should a school ‘do’? Why can’t education, as a system, refashion itself as aggressively as the digital technology that is causing it so much angst? The fluidity of a given curriculum should at least match the fluidity of relevant modern knowledge demands.
A curriculum-first school design is based on the underlying assumption that if they know this and can do this, that this will be the result. Of course, it doesn’t always work out that way. Worse, we tend to celebrate school success instead of human success.
Bloom's Taxonomy is a hierarchical ordering of cognitive skills that can, among countless other uses, help teachers teach and students learn.
One way to provide effective feedback for learning is a 'feedback sandwich' to structure your feedback: Compliment, Correct, Compliment.
Bloom's Taxonomy verbs include Evaluate: Criticize, Judge, Defend, Appraise, Value, Prioritize, Revise, Argue, Support, and Re-design.
Here are 22 simple assessment strategies and tips to help you become more frequent in your teaching, planning, and curriculum...
Give me a curriculum based on people--based on their habits and thinking patterns in their native places and a genuine need to understand.
Integrating technology into teaching and learning is like adding electricity to architectural design: embedded from the beginning.
Always assuming the best in a child is one of the most significant investments you can make in their future.
The idea here is digital movement through physical spaces--to see and witness places and cultures if only, for now, through a screen.