Mike’s Blog
Strategies, Ideas and Insights for Teachers and Leaders
Tag: mastery learning
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What are product-based assessments and how can you use Bloom’s Taxonomy to create them for your learners?
Product-Based Assessment This is where we find ourselves developing assessments from the point of view of the products we want learners to create. This may lead us to frame our…
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Nine ways any teacher can use Bloom’s taxonomy to develop in-lesson, question-led and task-based assessments that produce rich, meaningful insights into learner thinking
Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to Frame Assessment Bloom’s Taxonomy offers great scope for planning and developing assessment of all types. As a reminder, here’s how the taxonomy runs: It is inherently…
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Understand the fundamental role Bloom’s Taxonomy plays in most of the assessment experiences learners have in school (and beyond …)
Bloom’s Taxonomy and Assessment Our concern is the extent to which we can apply the taxonomy to support us in the twin aims of assessment: These aims refer to the…
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Instantly differentiate your questioning, including for your less- and more-able learners, by letting Bloom’s Taxonomy do the work for you
Bloom’s-Based Extension Questions Let’s think briefly about using Bloom’s taxonomy to structure extension questions. These questions are supplements to the main work of the lesson. They are called extensions because…
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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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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…
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Why application and analysis are the crucial turning point you need to be using in your lessons to bridge the gap to the top levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy
Application, Analysis and Bloom’s Taxonomy Application and analysis are levels three and four of Bloom’s Taxonomy: Subsequent research has suggested swapping the top two levels, synthesis and evaluation. For me,…
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How expert teachers use Bloom’s Taxonomy as their go-to teaching tool for facilitating challenge (unless they only teach practical areas of the curriculum)
Challenge in the Classroom Let’s think about challenge and, specifically, how Bloom’s Taxonomy helps teachers to facilitate it. Challenge means that learners are being asked to do more than they…
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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,…