Monday, August 23, 2010

Learning from the Blooms Taxonomy

Building a set of valuable skills to ensure better chance of success in your career will require careful thought and long term planning. When you are fresh from university, you mind were still in the stage attuned to the students life. Then you step in to the new world of career, and most likely you will notice that less than half of what you had learned can not be used at your work place.

But do not get despaired, seek deeper into it. Why not look at the methodology, and the discipline that you had experienced in the university. Many of the education institution build up the curriculum using the tested Bloom taxonomy of educational objectives. The idea can be used for you to build you your skills and knowledge.

The bloom taxonomy categorized the learnings into three broad domains or areas, the cognitive, psychometry and affective domain. Use this to map your learning requirements. Ask some of the basic questions, what are th skills and knowledges required for m to excel in the job. This can be obtained from the job specification.

The article below taken from ezinearticle.com on the topic of bloom taxonomy of learning.

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Education: Increase Academic Performance Through Engaged Learning By Partnering Bloom and Krathwohl

By Leanne Hoagland-Smith
What is engaged learning? From my experience and training it is when everyone within the classroom is actively engaged in the learning process to improve academic performance with a minimal amount of time being wasted. Unfortunately, the results from the Nation's Report Card tell us that young people are not performing at the levels required to compete as knowledge workers in the 21st Century.

To create an engaged learning environment requires that teachers have knowledge about how people learn. Many pre-service and experience teachers can recite the 6 categories within Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives:

Knowledge
Comprehension
Application
Analysis
Synthesis
Evaluation
However very few can with equal ease list the 5 categories within the Affective Learning Domain as identified by Krathwohl and colleagues:

Receiving
Responding
Valuing
Organization and Prioritizing
Internalize Values
Of course, listing them doesn't mean that they are being implemented into the daily lessons and achieving measurable learning results. And that is probably one of the reasons why improved performance in the classroom is not where it should be given the resources being expended and invested each and every day.

Let's be honest. Most young people especially those in middle school and high school know the following:

Be to school on time
Complete and submit assigned homework or projects
Speak when asked and do not interrupt
Submit neat work with your name, class, etc.
Keep your desk or locker clean and organized
Earn good grades
So, the real issue is not one of knowing, but rather one of wanting to do what is require. By partnering Krathwohl's taxonomy with Bloom's, teachers can increase the learning of a subject while changing beliefs and attitudes.

This partnership does take additional time. However when infusing these domains together, the increased academic performance outcomes far outweigh any perceived challenges. And, the extra benefit is that you spend far less time in classroom management and far more time in engaged learning.

Leanne Hoagland-Smith, President of ADVANCED SYSTEMS, works with large urban to private schools, certified staff, support staff, students and parents to improve performance in 30 to 180 days. Using proven tools, we can quickly and affordably identify the gaps in YOUR organization, provide you with an Action Plan that you can easily implement along with developmental programs from executive leadership to student leadership.

What would the value to you be if everyone within your school all rowed in the same direction with energy and enthusiasm?

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Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Leanne_Hoagland-Smith

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