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Tag: learning objectives
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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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Weave mastery into your planning by using Bloom’s Taxonomy to underpin objectives and outcomes across a sequence of lessons
Planning a Series of Objectives When it comes to medium-term planning, that is, planning a unit, scheme of work or across the course of a term, it can be particularly…
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Try this new approach to lesson planning and see what happens when you use Bloom’s Taxonomy to define an objective and then plan backwards from there
Defining an Objective and Planning Backwards If we know the goal towards which our lesson is aiming, then we are in a position to marshal our efforts squarely in pursuit…
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The easiest way to use Bloom’s Taxonomy to plan objectives that drive learning forward and put challenge at the top of the agenda for all learners
Objectives and Outcomes – A Brief Overview Objectives and outcomes underpin lessons. When planning, you may choose to begin by defining them or you may prefer to plan the lesson…
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Start using Bloom’s Taxonomy now to see understanding as a set of blocks learners build up in your lessons in pursuit of mastery
Building Blocks It seems natural to think of knowledge in terms of building blocks. We learn facts and information. This forms the foundations of our thought. As we grow older,…
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Why the magic of Bloom’s Taxonomy gives it relevance across age groups and throughout a huge chunk of the curriculum
A Tool You Can Put to Work The taxonomy is a flexible, adaptable tool that can be applied across large areas of the curriculum and with a wide range of…
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Understand the key cognitive processes that sit at the heart of Bloom’s Taxonomy, giving it the power to frame lessons, objectives, questions and assessments
Bloom’s Taxonomy in the Classroom What are the implications of Bloom’s Taxonomy for teaching and learning? How does delineating and defining the cognitive processes we ask learners to pursue in…
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Why does Bloom’s Taxonomy work? A simple, easy-to-follow guide that will change how you think about this indispensable teaching tool
Into the Distant Past We begin in the past, more than half a century ago. The taxonomy was first conceived in the years following World War Two. In 1956, Taxonomy…
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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…