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Tag: curriculum design
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How to make sense of mastery learning using Bloom’s Taxonomy, and what this means for planning, learning and assessment in your classroom
Mastery Learning as the Foundation Bloom’s Taxonomy is concerned with mastery learning. The whole taxonomy rests on this concept. If we master something we become expert in it. This expertise…
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Get under the bonnet of Bloom’s Taxonomy and discover exactly what is, how it works, and why it still matters today, more than half a century after its creation
Bloom’s Taxonomy is a hierarchy of cognitive processes ranging from the simple to the complex. To master those higher up you must first master those lower down. The processes to…
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Travel back in time and unlock the origin story of Bloom’s Taxonomy, possibly the most influential educational idea of the last four hundred years
Attempting to Define Curriculum Design In the late 1940s and early 1950s, a series of conferences were held in America in which educators came together to try to improve communication…