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Tag: lesson planning
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Instantly change the dynamic of your lesson planning by starting with the end product and using Bloom’s Taxonomy to scaffold learners up to where you want them to be
Starting with the End Product It can be useful to think about what products we want learners to create, and to plan from there. This is a method of planning…
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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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Relieve the pressure on your lesson planning with eight ready-made, good-to-go application and analysis activities you can use to bring Bloom’s Taxonomy into your teaching today
Looking at Application and Analysis Activities Here’s Bloom’s Taxonomy: We’re going to look at levels three and four. Application and analysis. I’ll share eight activities you can use in your…
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Eight sure-fire knowledge and comprehension activities that not only give you ready-made tasks to use in your planning, but also reveal the inner workings of Bloom’s Taxonomy
Making Use of Knowledge and Comprehension Activities Here’s Bloom’s Taxonomy: We’re going to look at the first two levels. I’ll share eight activities you can use in your lessons, four…
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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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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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How to use Bloom’s Taxonomy to create differentiated outcomes for your learners and why doing so can be useful, but is not necessarily a perfect answer
Creating Differentiated Outcomes Once we have a learning objective, we have the focus of our lesson. Next, we need some outcomes. These are the things learners will be able to…
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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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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…