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What is Blooms Taxonomy?

Author : Adam Waxler

Copyright 2005 Adam Waxler

What is Bloom's taxonomy and how can a teacher apply Bloom's
taxonomy to classroom lesson plans?

Bloom's taxonomy was originally created Benjamin Bloom for
categorizing and classifying levels of intellectual learning
that commonly occur in the classroom setting. Bloom's taxonomy
contains three overlapping domains: the cognitive, psychomotor,
and affective. Within the cognitive domain Benjamin Bloom
identified six levels that have become commonly known as Blooms
Taxonomy.  

The six levels of Bloom's taxonomy, from lowest to highest, are:
knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and
evaluation. These different levels of Bloom's taxonomy have
become an extremely useful guide for teachers in planning
classroom lesson plans and classroom objectives. You can even
find a list of verbs to help teachers design lesson plans in the
Bloom's Taxonomy Verb Chart located on this web site:
http://www.teaching-tips-machine.com/blooms_taxonomy.htm

It is vitally important that teachers do not just teach lower
order thinking skills at the bottom of Bloom's taxonomy such as
knowledge and comprehension, but also teach higher order
thinking skills at the top of Bloom's taxonomy such as
evaluation. When students are evaluating and judging and using
the higher order thinking skills they are more likely to retain
information, perform better on standardized tests, and most
importantly, achieve the ultimate goal of becoming lifelong
learners.

There are many ways in which teachers can use blooms taxonomy to
help create more focused lesson plans and help students use
higher order thinking skills. By following the Bloom's taxonomy
chart teachers can pinpoint what they will teach and how they
will go about teaching it. For example, take a social studies
lesson plan on the use of the atomic bomb to end WWII. A teacher
could teach this lesson by having students read and memorize
important key terms and facts. However, even if the teacher uses
a variety of teaching strategies to help increase reading
comprehension, the problem is the teacher is only focusing on
the lower order thinking skills. The students may be able to
regurgitate the information back on the test, but the student is
not using the higher order thinking skills that will help that
student retain the information for the long-term and, more
importantly, help the student learn to think for himself.

A simply way to teach the same lesson, but also address the
higher order thinking skills is to simply have the students
write a paragraph "evaluating/judging" Truman's decision to drop
the atomic bomb. The teacher can still have the students include
the key terms from the lesson in the paragraph, but by having
the students also make an argument and support that argument the
students are also addressing the higher order thinking skills of
Bloom's taxonomy.

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