Bloom's taxonomy refers to a classification of the different objectives that educators set for students, starting from lower cognigtive process to higher ones. Here you can see an image about the revised Bloom's Taxonomy and activities to develop each step:
Boom’s Taxonomy is widely known for professionals of education. However, if you take a closer look to the reality, teachers use to keep using the same methodologies because traditional classes require less work.
Beside that, as teachers, we can find useful tips and ideas to teach through Bloom's Taxonomy on this site: Educational origami
I want to show a simple analogy about a bottle of water and how we can use it to develope Bloom's Taxonomy through different questions:
- Remembering: “What is a bottle? What does it look like?”
- Applying: Now that you know what a bottle is used for, how do you use it?
- Analyzing: If you are able to take apart that bottle, what is the function of each part? What is each part’s importance and role in making that bottle being able to do the task it is used for?
- Evaluating: Is the bottle the best way to be doing the things that it is currently used for?
- Understanding: "Can you say some uses for a bottle? It can be used to keep water or liquits but are there other uses as well?”
- Creating: Thinking about the other uses for a bottle, design into groups an object that can be used for accomplish one of the functions of the bottle.
