What is Bloom’s Taxonomy? In 1956, Benjamin Bloom led a group of educational psychologists in defining the levels of intellectual behavior important to the learning process. They created a pyramid ...

When you begin creating a course, you want to design with the end in mind. The best way to approach this is to start by writing measurable course learning objectives. Course learning objectives are ...

In two preceding Fruits of Education columns, we described several tools for organizing training: the 6Ws, learning objectives, the creation and use of agendas, KSAs (knowledge, skills and abilities), ...

In my last post about the inverted/flipped calculus class, I stressed the importance of Guided Practice as a way of structuring students’ pre-class activities and as a means of teaching self-regulated ...

Teacher training is usually accompanied by a number of educational theories. For example, Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy, which forms the basis of objective-based learning, seems perfectly coherent and ...

It is easy to view the task of drafting learning objectives as a mere administrative hurdle—one more box to check for a syllabus or a department review. However, when we move beyond the "paperwork" ...

We’ve all been told that learning works like climbing a ladder. You start on the bottom rung with “basic” skills, climb upward through progressively “advanced” ones, and eventually reach the top. But ...