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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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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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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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Rethink your approach to lesson planning and let Bloom’s Taxonomy do more of the heavy lifting, so you can focus on the things that matter most to you
Bloom’s Taxonomy and Activities Bloom’s Taxonomy is an excellent basis for activities, allowing you to construct tasks for your learners that closely match their current level of mastery as well…
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Tie your outcomes to activities and build up challenge through your lessons, using Bloom’s Taxonomy as your guide
Tying Outcomes to Activities One of the ways we can make learning outcomes successful is by tying them to individual activities. Two possibilities are available to us. The first sees…
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Dig down into the detail of synthesis and evaluation, the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, and start using them to challenge learners in every lesson you teach
Making Sense of Synthesis and Evaluation Synthesis and evaluation sit at the top of Bloom’s Taxonomy: These are the most challenging levels. What we aim for when we’re challenging learners…
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How to use application and analysis to build engaging activities, deepen understanding and plan with purpose, helping you to squeeze the most from Bloom’s Taxonomy in your teaching
Application, Analysis and Bloom’s Taxonomy Application and analysis are the third and fourth levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy: Here’s a list of keywords for both: Application: Analysis: I’m going to walk…
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Three step-by-step examples illustrating exactly how you can use the third level of Bloom’s Taxonomy to accelerate learning in your classroom, for any learner
Using Application – Level Three of Bloom’s Taxonomy Application is the third level of Bloom’s Taxonomy: When we focus on application, we find ways to help learners use what they…
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Using application and analysis to help learners pivot away from the fundamentals and speed up their journey of mastering your lesson content
Speeding Up Mastery Let’s consider some of the ways we can use application and analysis, levels 3 and 4 of Bloom’s Taxonomy, to develop our lessons. The idea here is…