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What Are the Uses of Taxonomies?
I'm currently reading a book by National Board Certified Teacher Rick Wormeli called Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessing & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom. Wormeli talks at length about the advances in cognitive psychology that have led to the changes in Bloom's taxonomy. The practical application of Krathwohl and Anderson's 1995 revisions to the taxonomy's emphasis, terminology, and structure was to assist educators in understanding objectives, design valid assessments, and plan effective instruction. The hope was that holistic educators, critical of the objectives-based movement as overly simplistic, would be more accepting of the separate knowledge dimension, as well as "understanding" being labeled as a primary cognitive process category. It should be noted that current curriculum standards by both state and federal governments emphasize objectives.
Lee S. Shulman states, that the real use of taxonomies is that they "serve as a set of heuristics, as a stimulus for thinking about the design and evaluation of education, and as the basis for creative narratives about the learning process". Link: Making Differences: A Table of Learning by Lee S. Shulman © 2007 The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Wormeli particularly likes Frank William's Taxonomy of Creative Thinking which along with the Maker model is used to differentiate instruction. The Williams model has been a valuable tool in my working with gifted students throughout the years providing a framework for developing challenging questions and activities. For a more in-depth discussion of how creative tasks push students to think I have included a link to a PowerPoint presentation by Wormeli and an article by Robert Sylwester called, "How Emotions Affect Learning." Emotion is particularly important to education because a stimulating and emotionally positive classroom environment keeps students' attention - driving learning, memory, and the overall health of both students and educators.
Lee S. Shulman states, that the real use of taxonomies is that they "serve as a set of heuristics, as a stimulus for thinking about the design and evaluation of education, and as the basis for creative narratives about the learning process". Link: Making Differences: A Table of Learning by Lee S. Shulman © 2007 The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Wormeli particularly likes Frank William's Taxonomy of Creative Thinking which along with the Maker model is used to differentiate instruction. The Williams model has been a valuable tool in my working with gifted students throughout the years providing a framework for developing challenging questions and activities. For a more in-depth discussion of how creative tasks push students to think I have included a link to a PowerPoint presentation by Wormeli and an article by Robert Sylwester called, "How Emotions Affect Learning." Emotion is particularly important to education because a stimulating and emotionally positive classroom environment keeps students' attention - driving learning, memory, and the overall health of both students and educators.
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