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Category: Bloom’s Taxonomy
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The Bloom Buster – Free Resource
Leverage the Power of the World’s Most Influential Teaching Framework Viewed and Downloaded 147,000+ Times by Teachers Around the World 🎯 Fully take advantage of the power and scope of…
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Easily stretch and challenge your learners with more than a dozen strategies you can use to effectively differentiate right now
General Introduction This blog is part of my Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching Knowledge Base. I use the terms differentiation and adaptive teaching synonymously. To me, they are the same, as…
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Channel the power of the Ancients and get your learners sharpening their skills of evaluation every time you teach
A long, long time ago … Back in Ancient Greece, philosophers of the time pressed each other for justification. A claim could be made, but it would then face scrutiny.…
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Leverage the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy to bring critical and creative thinking into your planning, your activities and the lessons you teach
Critical and Creative Thinking Skills We can seek to directly improve the critical and creative thinking skills of our learners by providing challenge supplements that focus on these. A challenge…
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Use Bloom’s Taxonomy to create independence for your learners and give them the freedom to embrace challenge (and enjoy the experience)
Using Project Work to Stretch and Challenge Your Learners Project work is where we give learners an independent task to complete as they see fit, usually over an extended period.…
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Add challenge into your lessons at almost any point by calling on Bloom’s Taxonomy as a framework for stretching learner thinking
Challenge as a Supplement Here are two ways to think about challenge. First, challenge is an integral part of any lesson, permeating our planning and teaching. Second, challenge is a…
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How you can use Bloom’s Taxonomy to create easy-to-apply, high impact mark-schemes that marry up beautifully with the assessments you plan for your learners
Constructing Mark-Schemes with Bloom’s Taxonomy Once you have an assessment you want to use to test the extent of your learners’ mastery, you need to construct a mark-scheme to complete…
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What are product-based assessments and how can you use Bloom’s Taxonomy to create them for your learners?
Product-Based Assessment This is where we find ourselves developing assessments from the point of view of the products we want learners to create. This may lead us to frame our…
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Nine ways any teacher can use Bloom’s taxonomy to develop in-lesson, question-led and task-based assessments that produce rich, meaningful insights into learner thinking
Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to Frame Assessment Bloom’s Taxonomy offers great scope for planning and developing assessment of all types. As a reminder, here’s how the taxonomy runs: It is inherently…
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Understand the fundamental role Bloom’s Taxonomy plays in most of the assessment experiences learners have in school (and beyond …)
Bloom’s Taxonomy and Assessment Our concern is the extent to which we can apply the taxonomy to support us in the twin aims of assessment: These aims refer to the…