Reflective Teaching This last element of diversity education also creates a place for reflective teaching, which is also directly encouraged by an examination and application of Bloom's taxonomy of learning. Analyzing student achievement with an e Continue Reading...
The Old vs. the New Versions of Learning Classifications The classification levels of intellectual behavior advocated by Benjamin Bloom and his fellow educational psychologists in 1956 were listed as verbs (Atherton, 2013). In their time, intellectu Continue Reading...
Bloom's Taxonomy: Grading Reading Comprehension Bloom's Taxonomy offers a sequential method of grading a student's ability to comprehend a higher-level work of academic writing. According to Granello (2010), while she grants that the stages of the t Continue Reading...
Bloom's Taxonomy is a way of evaluating educational goals as they relate to student performance. The taxonomy was developed originally as more of a measurement tool, to serve as a common language about learning goals to help individuals communicate i Continue Reading...
Bloom's Taxonomy: Nursing Education Like most areas of life, education has increased in complexity. Many new philosophies and a deeper understanding of the human mind have brought about a myriad new ways to educate students for their future lives an Continue Reading...
VideosA. Elementary School Video: \\\"Practicing Presentation and Audience Skills through Science Presentations\\\"Example of Piagets or Vygotskys cognitive development theoriesThe teacher applies Piaget\\\'s Concrete Operational stage by allowing st Continue Reading...
Abstract Learning objectives help keep nursing students focused on the goals of their academic and professional careers. Using Bloom’s taxonomy, it becomes easier to identify the core competencies and underlying purpose of specific and general Continue Reading...
Valuing: A range of acceptance that is placed on the information being received. Organization: this is the organizing of the values by contrasting differing values. Internalizing Values: This has to do with the learners value system and how the l Continue Reading...
Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996) was an American scientist, historian and philosopher who wrote a controversial book in 1962 called The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and from an early age expressed interest in science, Continue Reading...
Allowing the students to "choose" the lesson, both empowers them and allows them a more engaging learning experience. Part 3 -- Questioning - Ineffective questioning typically asks for a rote memorization paradigm, as opposed to a more robust use o Continue Reading...
Bloom's Taxonomy Education Nursing Education Bloom's Taxonomy of learning and its use in nursing education: Chronic diseases Bloom's taxonomy of learning suggests that there are different levels of mastery when a student first confronts a topic. T Continue Reading...
" (Simon, 188) the fundamental perspective here is that leadership and the ability to apply actions based on culturally driven decisions are central to helping members of the organization learn in a concrete manner how best to accord with the reignin Continue Reading...
Brain-Based Learning Theory Learning does not only bring enlightenment to the weary souls but it also helps us learn, grow and be what we are potentially able to become. Therefore education plays a vital role in inculcating a sense of responsibility Continue Reading...
Size/Cooperative Learning & it's effects on participation Action Research Question Will cooperative learning have a significantly positive impact on smaller or larger classes? The purpose of this study was to investigate if cooperative learni Continue Reading...
Digital Camera: Lesson Plan Students will learn how to use a digital camera in an age-appropriate way. Students will be able to identify steps in using a digital camera. Students will be able to identify parts of a digital camera necessary for us Continue Reading...
Positive Behavior Context and Literature May's experience in the classroom is not unique. Many teachers find that they spend an inordinate amount of time working on behavioral difficulties as opposed to actually teaching material. May was fortunat Continue Reading...
Dennett's determination of the organization of a rational system surrounds the predictive behaviors of "believes" and "desires" to make a paradigm for international behavior. Rationality, for Dennett, is an intentional stance, meaning predictions ma Continue Reading...
Blind Men and the Elephant An Integrated Approach to learning In contemporary psychology, learning is one of the key topics; however, defining it is a very complex thing. According to the general accepted definitions of learning, it is "understandi Continue Reading...
Lesson Plan - Nurses The context in which the lesson plan will be implemented will be a classroom setting with nursing students attending a graduate level course in nursing. The classroom does not necessarily have to be a physical classroom but can Continue Reading...
Ask students to use their notes and Venn diagrams to discuss in small groups why the primary differences exist. In particular, ask students to consider whether there is anything humans can do to improve the situation. Closing: Have students convene Continue Reading...
No Child Left Behind Act (Public Law 107-110, 115), is a Congressional Act signed into law by George W. Bush in January 2002. The Bill was a bi-partisan initiative, supported by Senator Edward Kennedy, and authorized a number of federal programs desi Continue Reading...
Gamafication There seems to be an ongoing debate about the effects that computer and video games have on young people. One view holds that the violence they portray may desensitize and change behaviors for young people, the other that the skills nec Continue Reading...
Ideally, faculty would also engage in an ongoing effort to speak their students' languages. Active, inquiry-based, and cooperative learning are central components in authentic education. Students must engage in constructive, multi-modal, and multi- Continue Reading...
Nutrition and Cognitive Learning Among Elementary School Students -- a Proposal Many elementary school children are at-risk for poor nutrition. While many children do have good nutritional habits because their families lack money to buy sufficient Continue Reading...
On the lowest tier "Knowledge" from Bloom's taxonomy was changed to "remembering." The two upper tiers were also adjusted synthesis was changed to evaluating and evaluation to creating. Anderson's work privileges the creative ability. This is a cons Continue Reading...
Convergent questions seek one or more very specific correct answers, while divergent questions seek a wide variety of correct answers. Convergent questions apply to Bloom's lower levels of Knowledge, Comprehension, and Application and may include q Continue Reading...
These various elements will allow everyone to show how well they comprehend the material and provide areas for identifying critical weaknesses. These insights will be used to improve performance and enhance their comprehension of different areas. (W Continue Reading...
Schools are pressed in terms of their funding, and cannot always provide as much individualized education as is necessary to help students in the classroom. The results of this study support the notion that preschool intervention can be extremely v Continue Reading...
Moreover, Hill reports that he used to spend 16 hours a week lecturing, and now he uses that time to mentor students individually. Thus while Hills may still be putting in the same amount of hours, his students, who are only mentored for minutes at Continue Reading...
Nurse Critical Thinking Critical Thinking and Other Intellectual Skills: Documented Benefits and Skill Application in Nursing There are many academic skills that are necessary for nursing students that also serve nurses well in professional practic Continue Reading...
g. Johnny Appleseed for history, etc.). Read aloud, pass out a blank matrix and ask students to fill in the matrix with questions using Bloom's taxonomy -- at least two questions per heading. Assessment: using a rubric, students can self-assess thei Continue Reading...
The first affect would be for the educator to want to implement the technique within their own classroom setting, which is the intent of the article. The reader then would have to research the issue further to see if this particular method of instru Continue Reading...
Problem Solving in Mathematics GCSE or the General Certificate of Secondary Education is basically a system that is present in England, Northern Ireland and in Wales. In this system, a student is awarded an academic qualification based on the grade Continue Reading...
Educational Theories Guiding Educational Experience Description of an education event experienced I am a dentist, and I have started a course on teaching dentistry. My experience with education was never a particularly encouraging one as my teacher Continue Reading...
Differentiated Instruction and Closing the Achievement Gap It is not always easy to see how differentiated instruction is able to initiate an advantage in schools that are performing extremely low or how it could help in closing the achievement gap. Continue Reading...
Percussion Teacher In forty-five hours of teaching percussion, I have learned to apply various learning theories to my work. I believe a greater understanding of these theories has improved my pedagogy and enhanced communications and interpersonal c Continue Reading...
When establishing criteria for curriculum development the three domains should be used in such a manner as to make it a simple matter for students to understand what is expected. In a recent study the researchers discovered that it was "necessary t Continue Reading...
