Blooms Taxonomy

BLOOMS TAXONOMY IN CLASS ROOMS.

Teaching Higher – Level Thinking Skills

Today the teachers are having much interest on teaching higher level of thinking in the class. These operations include comprehension and interpretation of texts, scientific process and mathematical problem solving. But most of the time teachers fail to do this because of the inadequate instructions. Many scholars believed that the best way to develop the student’s high level thinking is using the three domains of Blooms Taxonomy.

Why use Blooms Taxonomy in class room?

 Most of us focused only on the students’ knowledge, how much they can recall from their mind. But if they face a problem in the real life situation it gives them a really hard time. For example:

Father asked a question to his son, “ How much money needed to tile your room? If 1x1 foot tile costs 7.50 Rufiyaa?”  Boy knows how to calculate the area of the given objects in the class. He got all correct in the exam. But he couldn't solve that simple problem. Why? Because he has only the knowledge but other levels are not developed.

Development of three major domains is a must to become a successful person in the future. If the lessons are planned and teach in a way to develop these domains then the students will be more and more intelligence and creative thinkers.

The young people roaming around the roads without doing anything will be reduce because of the development of the internalizing values and organization.  

STRENGHTS OF BLOOMS TAXONOMY

 CMulti-purpose: we can say Blooms Taxonomy is multi-purpose to the people. It can be used to develop the complete human. It can be used not only in the class rooms but can be used in the companies, factories and associations.

C Relatively easy to understand: The stages are not very complicated even an ordinary person can read and understand the stages and can be applying to the situations.

C Widely acceptable: It is widely acceptable all over the world in the educational fields. It is common in all the countries and widely using it.

C Provide common language: Each and every one in the educational field is able to understand the language used in it and it is possible to discuss within the people easily.

WEAKNESSES OF BLOOMS TAXONOMY

 D Difficult to apply: sometimes it is difficult to apply all the stages in one real situation.

D Time consuming: Take more time to prepare a lesson using the stages. Need more thinking to it.

D Moving one stage to another: Students feel difficulty to use the high and complex stages if the lower stages are not used properly.

D Levels are not appropriate: When we think about the lower grade students, levels used in the class may go higher than the students’ thinking level. At knowledge level they are able to recall what they have seen but problem occurs when they restructure the sentences. At comprehension level all students were able to contribute their ideas as whole group activities, but face difficulties to do individually.