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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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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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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…
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Instantly differentiate your questioning, including for your less- and more-able learners, by letting Bloom’s Taxonomy do the work for you
Bloom’s-Based Extension Questions Let’s think briefly about using Bloom’s taxonomy to structure extension questions. These questions are supplements to the main work of the lesson. They are called extensions because…
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Two simple yet powerful ways you can call on the magic of Bloom’s Taxonomy when thinking about questioning in your classroom
Circulating and Intervening Highly effective activities afford us the opportunity to circulate through the class. While doing this we can elicit information about learning – by observing, listening, reading work…
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Tailor your questions, frame your lessons and recalibrate your activities with ease when you start using Bloom’s-based questioning in your planning
Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to Frame Objectives, Lessons and Activities as Questions Framing learning objectives as questions offers lots of opportunities. The technique encourages a sense of enquiry, provides a means…
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Change how you think about questioning with sixty ready-to-go, tried-and-tested question stems covering each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy
The Art of Questioning Questioning is one of the most important tools at the teacher’s disposal. We ask hundreds of questions every day. It’s one of the ways, if not…