1. © SCHLECHTY CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOL REFORM All rights reserved. Introduction to Bloom’s Taxonomy Coaching for Design

2. © SCHLECHTY CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOL REFORM © All rights reserved. Level’s of Student Learning Bloom’s Taxonomy Why a revision? 1.A need to refocus educator’s attention on the value of the original handbook, not as a historical document but also that was one that was “ahead of its time” 2.A need to incorporate new knowledge and thought into the framework

3. © SCHLECHTY CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOL REFORM © All rights reserved. Level’s of Student Learning Bloom’s Taxonomy First Published in 1956; one of top educational publications which has influenced curriculum worldwide. The original taxonomy was one dimensional. Labeled the taxonomy with nouns: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation Revised Taxonomy in 2001 Created a 2-dimensioinal framework 1. Cognitive taxonomy labeled with verbs: Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create 2. The Knowledge Dimension: Factual Knowledge, Conceptual Knowledge, Procedural knowledge, and the Meta-Cognitive Knowledge.

4. © SCHLECHTY CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOL REFORM © All rights reserved. Level’s of Student Learning Bloom’s Taxonomy The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives; The Classification of Educational Goals, Handbook; 1956 ( B.S. Bloom (editor), M.D. Engelhart, E.J. Furst, W.H. Hill, & D.R. Krathwohl) A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing; A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives; 2001 (L.W. Anderson, D.R Krathwohl (editors), P.W. Airasian, K.A Cruikshank, R.E Mayer, P.R. Pintrich, J. Raths, M.C. Wittrock)

5. © SCHLECHTY CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOL REFORM © All rights reserved. Engaged Students Create Evaluate Analyze Apply Understand Remember

6. © SCHLECHTY CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOL REFORM © All rights reserved. Strategically Compliant Students Create Evaluate Analyze Apply Understand Recall and sometimes remember

7. © SCHLECHTY CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOL REFORM © All rights reserved. Ritually Compliant Students Create Evaluate Analyze Apply Understand Recall short term

8. © SCHLECHTY CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOL REFORM © All rights reserved. Retreatists and Rebels Learn little Develop negative attitudes toward learning

9. © SCHLECHTY CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOL REFORM © All rights reserved. Remember Retrieving relevant knowledge from long- term memory Key Verbs: count, define, draw, fill in the blank, identify, indicate, label, list, locate, match, memorize, name, point, quote, read, recall, recite, recognize, record, repeat, spell, state, tabulate, tell, trace, who, what, when, write, where, underline

10. © SCHLECHTY CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOL REFORM © All rights reserved. Understand Construct meaning from messages, including oral, written, and graphic communication Key Verbs: classify, compute, convert, define, describe, differentiate, discuss, distinguish, estimate, explain, extrapolate, illustrate, interpret, paraphrase, predict, put in order, recognize, rephrase, restate, retell in your own rewrite, summarize, retell, trace, translate

11. © SCHLECHTY CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOL REFORM © All rights reserved. Apply Carry out or use a procedure in a given situation. Key Verbs: apply, calculate, classify, compute, conclude, construct, demonstrate, determine, develop, draw, employ, examine, experiment with, find out, give an example, illustrate, make, operate, organize, practice, relate, restructure, show, solve, state a rule or principle,

12. © SCHLECHTY CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOL REFORM © All rights reserved. Analyze Break material into it’s parts and determine how the parts relate to one another and to an overall structure or purpose Key Verbs: categorize, classify, compare, contrast, debate, deduct, detect, determine the factors, diagnose, diagram, differentiate, dissect, distinguish, examine, group, infer, order, relate, separate, specify, summarize, transform

13. © SCHLECHTY CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOL REFORM © All rights reserved. Evaluate Make judgments based on criteria and standards Key Verbs: change, combine, compose, construct, debate, defend, disprove, design, find an unusual way, formulate, generate, integrate, invent, modify, originate, plan, predict, pretend, prescribe, produce, propose, rank, rearrange, reconstruct, reorganize, revise, suggest, suppose, visualize, write

14. © SCHLECHTY CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOL REFORM © All rights reserved. Create Put elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganize into a NEW pattern or structure Key Verbs: adapt, build, change, compile, compose, construct, create, elaborate, image, invent, hypothesize, originate, transform.