1. Bloom’s Taxonomy vs. Webb’s Depth of Knowledge Michelle Williams Merrydale Elementary

2. Agenda Introductions Bloom’s Taxonomy and Webb’s Thinking in the Classroom The Seesaw Effect Problem Solving Identifying Misalignments

3. Bloom’s Taxonomy Developed in 1948 by Benjamin Bloom Acquiring knowledge Levels are successive Focuses on students’ cognitive ability or thinking

4. Webb’s Depth of Knowledge Created by Norman Webb Is descriptive and not a taxonomy Measures the depth of knowledge of tasks Verbs alone do not determine the DOK level DOK level is determined by complex thinking and reasoning skills

5. “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.” ― Don Marquis

6. What Does Thinking Look Like in the Classroom? Skillful thinking must be cultivated Model thinking Recognizing how we think Cognition and content are inseparable

7. Types of Thinking Analytical thinking- analyze, compare & contrast, and evaluate information Practical thinking- apply learning to real life scenarios Creative thinking- create, design, imagine, and suppose Research-based- explore and review ideas, models and solution to problems

8. The Seesaw Effect thinking is the process modeled by the teacher problem solving is the product Bloom’s Taxonomy Webb’s Depth of Knowledge

9. Can Students Solve Problems in Text Based Subjects? Abstraction- leaving out one of the characteristics of an item Improving solutions- providing a solution to a problem or asked to improve a solution to a problem Generating ideas- creating analogies and an idea list or representations Relevant/irrelevant information- identifying information need or not need to solve a problem

10. “Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.” ― Harriet Martineau “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.” ― Henry Ford

11. What Does a Misalignment Look Like? Objective: the learner will explain how schools were different for wealthy and common Aztec children Objective: the learner will solve problems using the tape diagram

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