Bloom's Taxonomy

During the process of creating my assessment, I really focused on what we learned throughout the semester such as having a variety of question types, reaching more than one level of Bloom’s Taxonomy, straying from giving clues within my questions, and accounting for bias, reliability, validity, and diverse learners. I started out by choosing a lesson that would be a bit easier to put into a written test form (considering art classes are most commonly based on performance). So, I chose…

Finally, purposeful teaching, teachers plan and facilitate their practice with a particular education goal (Alexander, 2004: 28). This, I believe, is very much evident in my practice as a student teacher, due to the level detail that goes into the evaluations I carry out of every lesson. These evaluations encourage next steps and involve assessment of individual children. Assessment for learning is very much present in all the lessons I have taught, thus giving me an indicator of how they will…

topic or increase its mastery. It is argued that on applying theory to a classroom a mixture of theoretical perspectives should outline; affective (attitude), social (participation/skills) and cognitive (knowledge) theories. In correspondence Bloom’s Taxonomy states that learning behaviours can be thought of as a “the goals of the training process”. In other words by the end of the lesson the learner will have obtained knowledge skills and attitude. Affective theory of learning outcomes should…

Teacher-Centered Teacher-centered instruction/planning is strategies that reflect direct instruction to students. The lesson planning for teacher-centered comes from behavior objectives, task analysis, and instructional taxonomies. Bloom’s taxonomy classifies educational objectives into three domains: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. For the instruction part of this system, it can be done in three different ways, advance organizers, expository advance organizers, and comparative advance…

The nursing process is a framework that is reliable to make appropriate decisions (Bloniasz, 2011, p. 15). This framework, just like any other consists of five steps that can be used as a tool to guide a person. The steps are assessment, analysis, planning, implementation, and lastly evaluation (Black, 2014, p. 227). We must keep in mind that during these steps, the collaboration between the patient and the nurse should occur, and although some situations may prevent this from happening,…

On September 17, I observed first grade, Elkhorn City Elementary teacher, Dana Sheets. These rambunctious students had just came back from lunch and were still phasing to settling down for their lesson. The teacher did a wonderful job of catching their attention through the transition of calming them. She had the students complete a word puzzle on the wall out of their spelling words. She had made the boards setup on the wall so that each student can just run up and connect a puzzle piece, in…

Group Activity: After reading The Dinosaur Chase while asking and answering questions, the students will play “roll and retell” with their partner. Students will work with their reading partner and each have a roll and retell graphic organizer and a dice. The students will take turns and roll the dice. If it lands on one, the students will retell what the story is mostly about. If it lands on the number two they will discuss where the story takes place. If it lands on three they will discuss…

There is consistently school reform going on in my district, and specifically within my school. My school is currently working on challenging our high achieving students with a focus on implementing more inquiry based lessons and extension of activities. Duke (2013) argues, “For the U.S. to reclaim its position in the forefront of academic achievement, it must pay more attention to its high achievers” (Duke, p. 48). As an educator, my goal is to get my students to achieve in whatever way they…

One area needing great attention are the course objectives. Those need to be rewritten and I need to do some more pondering. Contrasting my course objectives to the extensive term list provided in Bloom’s Taxonomy (Kornuta and Germaine). It seems as if most of the constructs chosen fall under the “knowledge” category only one term falls under the “synthesis” category. When I think about Anderson’s model (2008) I believe the end result of my course would…

student I could possibly be. What should I do next, you may ask? I will continue on this journey, and take everything I learned and apply it to education and my life. While both Pappas and Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning to focus on reflection are both great in merit, I did choose Pappas for my reflection. Pappas’s Taxonomy of Learning applies to me in more on a personal level of simplicity and directedness. I could apply both methods, but my process of thinking and analyzing seem to fit perfectly…