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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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Use ranking and sorting activities to draw learners into your lessons, differentiating their engagement with the content you’re teaching
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 these oven-ready synthesis and evaluation activities to ramp up the level of challenge in your classroom and push learners to think deeply about the lessons you plan
Exploring Synthesis and Evaluation Activities Here’s Bloom’s Taxonomy: We’re going to look at the top two levels. Synthesis and evaluation. These are always the most challenging things we ask learners…
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Understand the multiple ways any teacher can use synthesis and evaluation to plan, structure and develop effective lessons and assessments, calling on the power of Bloom’s Taxonomy
Synthesis, Evaluation, and Assessment Synthesis and evaluation are challenging. They sit at the top of Bloom’s Taxonomy. If learners can do these successfully, they’ll have gone a long way towards…
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Put your lessons on a trajectory of challenge by using synthesis and evaluation as your Bloom’s-Taxonomy-inspired endpoints
Creating Challenging Endpoints with Synthesis and Evaluation As a reminder, here’s Bloom’s Taxonomy And here’s a set of keywords for synthesis and evaluation: Synthesis: Evaluation: Now, what I want to…
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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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Ready-to-Use Classroom Evaluation Questions for Primary and Secondary
These questions are ready-to-use. They are evaluation questions, based on the top level of Bloom’s Taxonomy. You can use the questions as part of verbal questioning or as written questions.…