How to Use Bloom's Taxonomy for Different Education Levels
- 1). Study Bloom's Taxonomy of skills and become familiar with the concepts and how they interact with each other and serve as building blocks. Learn how many teachers dwell on the knowledge and comprehension levels rather than encouraging higher-thinking skills.
- 2). Read educational articles about how to incorporate the skill levels into your teaching, no matter what level you are working with. Get ideas for different educational levels from existing resources rather than try to reinvent the taxonomy.
- 3). Discuss Bloom's Taxonomy with your colleagues. Ask how they incorporate the various skills into their lesson plans. Observe a lesson to see how they do it and take notes for future reference. Decide what activities will work --- group work at Grade 3 or question-and-answer sessions with college students --- at the level where you are teaching.
- 4). Plan your lessons to address all six levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Make an informed decision to incorporate the different skill levels into your lesson plans. Ask questions that require synthesis and evaluation, and you may be surprised at how well young children can think in theoretical terms.
- 5). Use the application process to review your lessons at the end of the day and determine how well you incorporated the six levels of the taxonomy. Assess how often you asked students for answers that required analysis, synthesis and evaluation rather than knowledge or comprehension.
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