Bloom's Taxonomy

From Benjamin S. Bloom Taxonomy of educational objectives.
Published by Allyn and Bacon, Boston, MA. Copyright (c) 1984 by Pearson Education.
Adapted by permission of the publisher.

       

Bloom's Taxonomy had been created by Benjamin Bloom which helps to categorize the level of abstraction of questions that commonly occur in educational settings. This taxonomy results ver useful due that it helps to ask questions within particular levels and it will help to students to answer questions in an easier way. The teacher will be able to study using appropriate strategies. In order to accomplish with his goal, he proposed some competence with its own skills. First, the educational objectives are, competence, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. Each of them are very important when preparing our students to learn the language due that Bloom's Taxonomy is hierarchical, which means that assumes  learning to higher levels depending on the acquisition of knowledge and skills of certain lower levels. Second, there are sample questions that belogs to each educational objective. For example, 'Knowledge' one of the many questions is: How many...? From 'Comprehension' could be: Can you write in your own words? From 'Application' could be: Would this information be useful if you had a ...? From 'Analysis' could be:

Which events could have happened...? From 'Synthesis' the question could be: Why not compose a song about...? From 'Evaluation' could be: Judge the value of... As a conclusion, Bloom's Taxonomy is a very useful method that will helps us as future teacher due that we can take this as a guide in order to teach our students to think critically and in a better way. As a future teacher, I consider that Bloom's Taxonomy could be used by myself in order to provide my students with good educational objectives and I would like to help them to become good speakers of the L2.

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- From Benjamin S. Bloom Taxonomy of educational objectives.

Published by Allyn and Bacon, Boston, MA. Copyright (c) 1984 by Pearson Education.
Adapted by permission of the publisher.