Bloom's Taxanomy

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Bloom's Taxonomy was created in 1956 under the leadership of educational psychologist Dr Benjamin Bloom in order to promote higher level of thinking in education, such as analyzing and evaluating, rather than just remembering facts. Bloom's Taxonomy divides educational objectives into three domains which are Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor. The cognitive domain involves knowledge and the development of intellectual. This includes the recall or recognition of specific facts and concepts that serve in the development of intellectual abilities and skills. The affective domain includes the manner in which we deal with things emotionally, such as feelings, values, appreciation, enthusiasms, motivations, and attitudes. The psychomotor domain includes physical movement, coordination, and use of the motor-skill areas. The development of these skills requires frequent practice. Within the domains, in order to learn at a higher level, prerequisite knowledge and skills should be learned at lower levels. A goal of Bloom's Taxonomy is to motivate educators to focus on all three domains, creating a more holistic and better way or form of education. Bloom’s six thinking levels provide a structure that allows teachers to present a lesson to a group of students who has different needs and abilities. This model supports the need to differentiate the curriculum so all students are able to participate in the same content area during a lesson. The structure allows the teacher to accommodate a variety of students’ needs by applying the appropriate questions and activities for students so that they can all participate in the lesson. For example, if the class is studying plants as part of a science topic, the teacher can develop activities at each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy to involve students related to their assessed needs and abilities. The model allows a lower functioning student
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