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Tag: stretch and 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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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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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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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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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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Stingrays, uncertainty and Bloom’s Taxonomy: three ways to shift mindsets that will change how you think about challenge
Stingray Questions In Ancient Greece, the philosopher Socrates walked around the city streets of Athens posing difficult questions to the people he met. His aim was to press them on…
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Put the power to shape learners’ mindsets in your hands by establishing a language of challenge in your classroom
Establishing a language of challenge in your classroom means finding ways to communicate to learners that challenge is good, that it is to be expected, and that it is to…
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Subject-specific stingray questions designed to turn your learners’ thinking on its head
Stingray questions pack a punch. They jolt or surprise learners. They might turn things upside down, remove familiar assumptions, or ask learners to think from a completely different persepective. You…
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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.…