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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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Three ways you can revisit how you plan questions, that will help you to more effectively differentiate for the learners in front of you
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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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…