The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom. Bloom’s & SOLO ‘are not Just Colorful Posters we Hang on the Wall’ is my two-part series at Education Week Teacher.
Bloom’s Taxonomy is talked about a lot in educational circles. However, if you believe a recent survey of visits to 23,000 U.S. classrooms, the higher-order thinking skills it’s ideally designed to promote doesn’t get much use. And I can understand why. It’s easy to get caught-up in the day-to-day work involved in teaching a class or multiple classes, and it’s easy to fall into the trap of doing the “usual stuff” and not “think out of the box.” I thought it might be useful to share in a “The Best…” list the resources that help me try to use Bloom’s Taxonomy in my classroom. There may very well be resources out there that do a far better job of explaining the Taxonomy and how to use it. Classroom Issues on Graphic Organizer Ideas. Assessment Teaching Resources. Latest version of Web Literacy standard grid (8 April 2013) Update: For the latest information on the Web Literacy standard work, head to Just a quick one to ensure the latest version of the Web Literacy standard competency grid is always here on my blog: Comments welcome!
If we can agree on this then we need to get cracking with the descriptors for the strands and the competencies. Our calls are now on Mondays at 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm BST. All welcome! Web Literacy Lead for the Mozilla Foundation. Ol Cat Teacher Blog: Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 04/12/2013. Professional Development On Your Time, Your Way. As someone who helps develop and deliver professional development to teachers, I've heard lots of reasons why some of the PD schools offer to teachers might not be a good fit.
It's not relevant to me.It's a waste of time.Boring. I am sure if you ask, most teachers can recall some PD they've suffered through with great detail. PD should be something that we look forward to. It should be something that we are excited about. It should be something we are in control of. Yep. Did you know there are tons of ways to learn new concepts, techniques and ideas for both in the classroom and for you as an educator? Simple K12 Webinar Series ( The girls over at Simple K12 have been offering free webinars on a wide variety of topics for a while now. Classroom 2.0 Live! Bam Radio Network ( Bam Radio has grown into the place to visit for educational podcasts. Twitter Hashtags ( A list like this wouldn't be complete without mentioning the great learning that happens on Twitter 24/7.
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It is not enough to say it, people must understand how their contributions really matter. Please take a few moments to read her call to action and if you are moved to help this movement, please donate $5.00 or more. During a 2011 Ted Talk titled “You Matter,” Angela Maiers spoke of how these two words can change lives and change our world, if we understand them and we leverage them in the right way. Students everywhere reacted powerfully to this call to action, completing jaw-dropping quests to address problems in our world.
These range from sending a crate load of books to a school in Ghana to raising money to build wells for communities without water, to publishing YouTube videos that save lives and creating Facebook support groups for students in crisis. The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom. Bloom's Taxonomy.
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In November 2013, the first School in the Cloud—located inside a high school in Killingworth, England—opened its doors to students. Since then, four more schools have opened— one more in the United Kingdom and three in India, including two flagship facilities and the first independent School in the Cloud. A digital School in the Cloud platform was launched at TED2014. Educational researcher Dr.