Lessons based on Bloom's Taxonomy

Lessons according to Bloom
Enrich your lessons according to Bloom's taxonomy, for grades 3 to 8.

To enable gifted children to reach their full potential, they need questions and assignments that appeal to ‘higher-order thinking’. Or, in other words, they need a robust, challenging task so that they learn to exert themselves during their work.

The terms ‘lower- and higher-order thinking’ were developed by Benjamin Bloom. According to Bloom’s taxonomy, learning material can be divided into roughly 2 levels: lower-order thinking questions (remembering, understanding, applying) and higher-order thinking questions (analyzing, evaluating, creating). Most methods only offer lower-order thinking questions. This means that gifted children, who need higher-order thinking questions to develop, often do not learn and do not receive appropriate education.

Bloom’s Taxonomy
With Bloom's taxonomy, you can make existing assignments more challenging or refine them slightly, with the goal of all children in your class learning.

The book 'Lessons according to Bloom' gives you a push in the right direction within a few seconds, to give your lesson that extra dimension. With this book, you can consciously differentiate your lesson. You gain insight into the level of the teaching methods and your self-created lessons.

The lesson comes alive as children think creatively about the subject matter. Try it out. It's like turning a switch. The class turns 'on' and there they go.

Middle and upper grades
In this book, a distinction has been made between middle grades (groups 3 to 5) and upper grades (groups 6 to 8). You can be flexible with this. Your learning objectives are always the starting point. Formulate appropriate assignments for each level. The book contains sentence fragments that you can complete for this purpose.

Adjusting existing assignments
You can also look at how to adjust existing assignments to higher-order thinking questions. Which assignments are too easy and what can you omit? Which assignments will replace them? This requires good preparation, but you also get something in return: a motivated student who learns!