Climbing the Ladder!

 

Blooms Taxonomy: Why? 

Bloom Taxonomy is a multi-tiered model of classified thinking. This is done according to six cognitive levels of complexity. These levels include knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation. Teachers would encourage their students to "climb to a higher level of thought" to get them to this critical level of classified thinking. There is now a new way it is labeled which is, remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. It helps to create a framework to move students through the learning process and classified thinking stages. It is a great benchmark for teachers and students to classify where they are falling in the thinking process. It gives terms a higher and lower level of thinking. There are verbs that describe each level of the pyramid for each level of thinking. 

VERBS:
remembering- retrieving, recognizing, recalling 
understanding- constructing, comprehending, interpreting
applying- executing, implementing, appealing 
analysis- determining, organizing, attributing
evaluating- checking, critiquing, assessing 
creating- generating, planning, producing 

I think that this pyramid is a great visual for students and teachers. You are able to track your progress and work your way up the ladder. I think that these verbs also descirbe the others ways the table could be interpreted. I will definitely be using this in my classroom to help my students thrive. Chat Soon!