A question I had was about Bloom’s Taxonomy. I’ve heard about it in other classes but I never really understood it or where it came from or why it is a valid idea to go by. It’s something that hasn’t really been explained to me, just something I’ve read.
If a teacher believes in a cognitive approach to learning and teaches using the information processing theory, they would probably teach using expository teaching. The goal of this teaching method is to have information successfully integrated into the student’s memory in ways that are meaningful, which helps them remember it long term. The basis of this teaching method is to start by activation of the students past knowledge, to grab their attention. This is the start of the learning. The very organized approach builds a foundation and the students have to practice the new information through different ways, in order for it to be successfully encoded into long term memory.
A teacher who believes in a behavioral approach to learning would be more likely to use mastery learning. In behaviorism, theorists believe everyone can learn the same, and in mastery learning, it is believed that all students can learn a subject if given the proper amounts of time. Mastery learning is based on operant conditioning, since they are doing the tasks of schoolwork and they are given feedback for their work. A positive response would encourage them that they are doing well and to keep it up and a negative response would tell them to not proceed in that direction again.
Bloom's Taxonomy is a hierarchy of learning and higher-order thinking. More specifically, it is a graphical representation of instructional objectives as concrete statements of the goals toward which instruction is directed. These play an important role in the process of learning and instruction in the classroom. This model allows
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Like Heather said, it is a hierarchy of certain types of thinking and consists of of 6 ways that students demonstrate their knowledge of a certain concept. Starting from the first "step" of the hierarchy, each skill is built off of the next one to the next one and the student is able to analyze the concept when moving from step to step. Also, it moves from lower-order thinking to higher-order thinking as the steps go on from 1-6. The different levels attempt to show the teacher how each student learns and what pace through the steps. For example, one student might go straight from 1-4 without much work, while another student might be stuck on step 2 for a while before moving onto 3.
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