Bloom's Taxonomy--Levels of Thinking

These are some ways to think of and look at higher levels of thinking. Common core focuses, for the first time, on the higher levels. These can be difficult for middle school minds as their brains are not fully developed yet. So, we work on getting them to the higher level understanding.

A student who can consistently show the higher levels of thinking in work is an A/B student. A student who can only consistently do the lower levels of thinking (copy, find, etc.) is at best a C student.

Some very useful sites:

Kathy Shrock's "Google Tools to Support Bloom's Revised Taxomy"

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy by Andrew Churches. This is a greally great site about how to use many different tools to enable or enhance the process of teaching students at the various levels of Bloom.

A Model of Learning Objectives. This kind of a neat site created by Rex Heer at ISU that presents a "rolloverable" 3d represententaion of the new 4 X 6 Taxonomy. "Rollovers" pop up simple examples of Learning Objectives. The taxonomy is also explained and links provided for even more useful resources