Reflection Paper - Bloom's Taxonomy of Education Objectives

Leonardo Z. Camboja Jr.                                                     Facilitating Learning

BEE – 2                                                                            Olga C. Alonsabe Ph.D.

October 1, 2012

Reflection Paper – Bloom’s Taxonomy of Education Objectives

          I learned from our discussion about Bloom’s taxonomy of education objectives is the level of thinking required in the cognitive domain of objectives. There are two other domains of learning, namely psychomotor and affective. According to Bloom’s theory there are six categories and samples for each level:

·         Knowledge category was renamed into remembering in order to be more comprehensive to us in creating a question for our pupils. In making objectives based of this category we are using identifying, describing, naming, recognizing, listing, retrieving and labeling. These kinds of strategies in making lesson plan in actual teaching helps the pupils aware of their learning capacity. What we emphasized is the participation of the pupils during class sessions.

·         Understanding, the learner grasps the learning of information by interpreting and translating what has been learned. Meaning the teaching methods should be the teacher do is to help interpret ideas which are difficult to understand by the pupils.

·          Applying, the learner makes use of information in a context different from the one in which it was learned. This category emphasized how to elaborate and implementing topics in playing, make a scrapbook and writing their reflection based of lessons given.

·         Analyzing, the learner breaks learned information into its parts to best understand that information. Student interest and motivation are enhanced by questions that help students relate what they are learning to their own background knowledge, experience, and values.

·         Evaluating, the learner makes decisions based on in-depth reflection criticism and assessment. This will be the category that the students will determined their learning capabilities in terms of assessing their output by giving problems solving based on topics discussed.

·         Evaluation/Creating, this category will focus on decision making in which students support their ideas of any issues/topics arises. At the end of the class, student can now submit a written output in order measures their learning level against a set of standards.

I realized that these criteria in making objectives of my future pupils/student will be my guidelines to better teaching methods for evaluating their learning capacity. Assessing students by using questions requiring higher-order thinking, teacher questioning moves beyond an assessment tool. I will make questions that classified by application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation.

Soon, if I have the opportunity to be a teacher, I will apply all my teaching strategies in my classroom. I will use new technology gadget especially if I will assign in hinterland school. I know the fact that these communities are not priorities of government projects and infrastructure. The development of this community depend the effort of local government official.