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Why Is It Important For Students To Learn About Bloom’s Taxonomy? | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Why Is It Important For Students To Learn About Bloom’s Taxonomy? | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Why Is It Important For Students To Learn About Bloom’s Taxonomy?

There are tons of resources available on Bloom’s Taxonomy (you can see some great stuff at The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom) — much of it geared towards helping educators use it in developing their lesson plans.

In my newest book, though, in addition to talking about that aspect of Bloom’s Taxonomy, I include a detailed lesson plan for explicitly teaching what Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised) is to students.

My colleagues and I are actually using that lesson plan right now, and it’s been great to see students — without prompting from us — starting to incorporate what they are learning by using many of the question-stems found in