{"id":57,"date":"2013-10-18T15:34:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T22:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/patriclougheed\/?p=57"},"modified":"2013-10-18T15:34:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T22:34:03","slug":"6-alternatives-to-blooms-taxonomy-for-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/patriclougheed\/2013\/10\/18\/6-alternatives-to-blooms-taxonomy-for-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Alternatives To Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy For Teachers &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;At the end of the day, teaching is about <a title=\"How Students Learn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/learning\/how-students-learn\/\"><strong>learning<\/strong><\/a>, and learning is about understanding.<\/p>\n<p>And as technology evolves to empower more diverse and flexible assessments forms, constantly improving our sense of what understanding looks like\u2013during mobile learning, during project-based learning, and in a flipped classroom\u2013can not only improve learning outcomes, but just might be the secret to providing personalized learning for every learner.<\/p>\n<p>This content begs the question: why does one need alternatives to the established and entrenched Bloom\u2019s? Because Bloom\u2019s isn\u2019t meant to be the alpha and the omega of framing instruction, learning, and assessment. Benjamin Bloom\u2019s taxonomy does a brilliant job of offering \u201cverbs\u201d in categories that impose a helpful cognitive framework for planning learning experiences, but it neglects important ideas, such as self-knowledge that UbD places at the pinnacle of understanding, or the idea of moving from incompetence to competence that the SOLO taxonomy offers.<\/p>\n<p>So with apologies to Bloom (<strong><a title=\"14 Brilliant Bloom's Taxonomy Posters \" href=\"http:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/learning\/14-brilliant-blooms-taxonomy-posters-for-teachers\/\">whose work we covered recently<\/a><\/strong>), we have gathered five alternatives to his legendary, world-beating taxonomy, from the TeachThought Simple Taxonomy, to work from Marzano to Fink, to the crew at Understanding by Design.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/learning\/5-alternatives-to-blooms-taxonomy\/\">6 Alternatives To Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy For Teachers &#8211;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;At the end of the day, teaching is about learning, and learning is about understanding. And as technology evolves to empower more diverse and flexible assessments forms, constantly improving our sense of what understanding looks like\u2013during mobile learning, during project-based learning, and in a flipped classroom\u2013can not only improve learning outcomes, but just might be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/patriclougheed\/2013\/10\/18\/6-alternatives-to-blooms-taxonomy-for-teachers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">6 Alternatives To Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy For Teachers &#8211;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,49,10],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-theory","tag-bloom","tag-learning-theory","tag-taxonomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/patriclougheed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/patriclougheed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/patriclougheed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/patriclougheed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/patriclougheed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/patriclougheed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/patriclougheed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/patriclougheed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/patriclougheed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/patriclougheed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}