Bloom's Taxonomy

Are you familiar with Bloom's Taxonomy? I hope you are!! in 1956, Benjamin Bloom and a group of educators completed this hierarchy of cognitive levels of complexity. Today it is still alive and well!! It has been revised, thus changing the words in the taxonomy from nouns to verbs,

Teachers use the taxonomy to plan and teach their lessons as well as to assess their student's learning. As the new Common Core Standards require students to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways, Bloom's can assist teachers in making sure that their lessons build up from "remembering" to "creating."

http://www.clemson.edu/assessment/assessmentpractices/referencematerials/documents/Blooms%20Taxonomy%20Action%20Verbs.pdf

This link can assist teachers in the development of their lessons and assessments so that students can demonstrate their learning at the highest, most complex level. One criticism is that teachers do not always incorporate higher level, complex learning activities and that learning is rote and mundane. To ensure that students grow intellectually, teachers should keep the taxonomy handy for lesson planning and assessment and be accountable for the higher levels of student learning.