Bloom’s Taxonomy
Posted on August 5, 2013 by nicholasmeier
My son, professor Nick Meier, has posted another blog wroth reading. below is an excerpt of it. for the rest you can go to his blog: (http://www.nicholasmeier.com)
Bloom’s TaxonomyNicholas Meier
On the theme of popular ideas that I feel a need to critique….
Bloom’s taxonomy has been around for a long time as an aid to teachers, presented as a hierarchy of sophistication of thinking. I was first introduced to it when I started teaching in the 1980s. The college where I currently teach asks all of their instructors to keep it in mind when developing and teaching their courses.
I have two central problems with Bloom’s taxonomy, both of which I will discuss. Then I will mention how it can be used positively.
First of all, when I have used Bloom’s list, or the new revised list, to analyze a lesson and to think about which categories are being tapped into, I find it hard to pigeonhole activities or questions. My teacher education students and I often find that we can put the same questions into multiple categories depending on how we interpret them. In other words, real ideas and lessons do not seem to fit neatly into these categories,