Bloom´s taxonomy has helped me when planning in so many ways. I always have this list handy when planning. I believe it is so important to know about this because sometimes you have good ideas of what to do or what activities to implement, but they do not suit students´level or simply the next stage you want to take them to. Respecting and going through the six stages proposed by Bloom is what asures one as a teacher to realize of how deep students´s understanding is. Providing challenging practices they can work on outside the classroom helps one to evaluate learners´s comprehension without taking much of class time. Being able to work on tasks that do promote higher thinking skills will make students suceesful. It is true that these six stages overlap, but knowledge acquisition is flexible and asistematic. We cannot expect students to go through each stage at the same time or in the same way.
The following video, talks about the importance of high level thinking skills. The two teachers in the video acknowledge the importance of promoting critical thinking in the classrooms to build on learners crosscultural and social knowledge. They state that this kind of thinking allows students, and education professionals to address other skills as well. The question commly asked among educators is Can we really teach thinking? The answer they give is, yes. The two speakers quote a study carried out in Venezuela where a critical thinking curriculum was implemented. In a ten year term, they noticed how the IQ of the learners significally increased.
I consider CALL the most important tool for those teachers who intend to teach students, in the 21st century, since teachers are no longer the main source of information. Nowadays, teachers do not have to keep doing the same activities everyday while expecting to get different results. It is time for teachers to re-evaluate the way they teach, what they teach, why they teach, when they teach, and so on. Teachers have the duty of making education relevant by implementing technology effectively. Our students are expending most of their time in our classrooms, even though they are not learning English as a second language, as well as they would. Why is that? Teachers still insist on limiting their students to: writing on the board, passing copies around, and asking their students to “work on page…. ” of the book… Bloom´s guides me from knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, and synthesis to evaluation, when carefully selecting the students´ objectives. It also makes me realize how far away my students are from a higher thinking, before I work with them for reaching one or several objectives. Teachers have to move on! The best and only example that comes to my mind is the way we are being taught along this course! It is about facilitating our students the right to a higher thinking, going from application to the analysis, the synthesis, or even the evaluation. So, it is time to ask yourself Are my students able to debate? To judge? To justify? To defend? If the answer is “yes”, you must be doing an excellent work! If the answer is “no”, we have to start questioning and answering about the roll we all teachers are playing in nowadays teaching and learning process. I want to share you this link. It is about Bloom´s Taxonomy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__YdXxwBZ7Q
Bloom´s taxonomy has helped me when planning in so many ways. I always have this list handy when planning. I believe it is so important to know about this because sometimes you have good ideas of what to do or what activities to implement, but they do not suit students´level or simply the next stage you want to take them to. Respecting and going through the six stages proposed by Bloom is what asures one as a teacher to realize of how deep students´s understanding is. Providing challenging practices they can work on outside the classroom helps one to evaluate learners´s comprehension without taking much of class time. Being able to work on tasks that do promote higher thinking skills will make students suceesful. It is true that these six stages overlap, but knowledge acquisition is flexible and asistematic. We cannot expect students to go through each stage at the same time or in the same way.
ReplyDeleteThe following video, talks about the importance of high level thinking skills. The two teachers in the video acknowledge the importance of promoting critical thinking in the classrooms to build on learners crosscultural and social knowledge. They state that this kind of thinking allows students, and education professionals to address other skills as well. The question commly asked among educators is Can we really teach thinking? The answer they give is, yes. The two speakers quote a study carried out in Venezuela where a critical thinking curriculum was implemented. In a ten year term, they noticed how the IQ of the learners significally increased.
I consider CALL the most important tool for those teachers who intend to teach students, in the 21st century, since teachers are no longer the main source of information. Nowadays, teachers do not have to keep doing the same activities everyday while expecting to get different results. It is time for teachers to re-evaluate the way they teach, what they teach, why they teach, when they teach, and so on. Teachers have the duty of making education relevant by implementing technology effectively.
ReplyDeleteOur students are expending most of their time in our classrooms, even though they are not learning English as a second language, as well as they would. Why is that? Teachers still insist on limiting their students to: writing on the board, passing copies around, and asking their students to “work on page…. ” of the book…
Bloom´s guides me from knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, and synthesis to evaluation, when carefully selecting the students´ objectives. It also makes me realize how far away my students are from a higher thinking, before I work with them for reaching one or several objectives. Teachers have to move on! The best and only example that comes to my mind is the way we are being taught along this course! It is about facilitating our students the right to a higher thinking, going from application to the analysis, the synthesis, or even the evaluation.
So, it is time to ask yourself Are my students able to debate? To judge? To justify? To defend? If the answer is “yes”, you must be doing an excellent work! If the answer is “no”, we have to start questioning and answering about the roll we all teachers are playing in nowadays teaching and learning process.
I want to share you this link. It is about Bloom´s Taxonomy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__YdXxwBZ7Q