BLOOMS Taxonomy and its SIGNIFICANCE to us all..

A statement of a learning objective contains a verb (an action) and an object (usually a noun).

• The verb generally refers to [actions associated with] the intended cognitive process.
• The object generally describes the knowledge students are expected to acquire or construct.
  (Anderson and Krathwohl, 2001, pp. 4–5)

The cognitive process dimension represents a continuum of increasing cognitive complexity—from remember to create. Anderson and Krathwohl identify 19 specific cognitive processes that further clarify the bounds of the six categories (Table 1).

Table 1. The cognitive processes dimension — categories, cognitive processes (and alternative names)
remember	understand	apply	analyze	evaluate	create
recognizing (identifying) recalling (retrieving)	interpreting (clarifying, paraphrasing, representing, translating) exemplifying (illustrating, instantiating) classifying (categorizing, subsuming) summarizing (abstracting, subsuming) inferring (concluding, extrapolating, interpolating, predicting) comparing (contrasting, mapping, matching) explaining (constructing models)	executing (carrying out) implementing (using)	differentiating (discriminating, distinguishing, focusing, selecting) organizing (finding coherence, integrating, outlining, parsing, structuring) attributing (deconstructing)	checking (coordinating, detecting, monitoring, testing) critiquing (judging)	generating (hypothesizing) planning (designing) producing (construct)

(Table 1 adapted from Anderson and Krathwohl, 2001, pp. 67–68.)

Setting Classroom Boundaries on DAY ONE

Giving Students Guidelines & Procedures for a Quality Learning Environment

PART 1:

http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/winstonsmith44-1169612-haz-rl-k-guidelines-ppp/

 By clicking on this link you will be shown a ppp that I made in conjunction with my teaching partner Brentson Ramsey.  It is the first part of a two part ppp series that deals with the issue of students being presented with boundaries; ie, classroom guidelines and procedures expected to be adhered to throughout the year.  It is very exciting to see how they will respond, react and (r)adhere to our policy.  Watch this space for feedback and reflections from both our students and ourselves over the next few weeks

PART 2:

http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/winstonsmith44-1169614-procedures-day-one-and-two/

My First Post of 2011 (on my new blog that is)

Hi Everyone, or Anyone, as the case may be. My name is David Mearns and although my bio gives you a brief summary of my career I just wanted to write it again as a blog, since this is my first blog on my own site, of 2011. I did actually come across a blog of mine from 2007 when they were just getting off the ground (as I could see- there were of course already thousands, hundreds of thousands, just no one connected to me had one). I had in fact set one up with a grade nine class of mine. I remember it as being fun, and students were certainly engaged at the time; however it was MSN that was the chat of choice, and that was how we really communicated :-(. But, to be honest, lots of other things were going on in my life, and it simply fell by the wayside as I moved house, changed jobs and started doing an MSc TESOL with Aston university in Birmingham, UK. Fortunately, now, though, I am back and with an ICT social-networking passion that means regular blogging.

It all started again for me when I was invited by an ELT colleague to post on her blog, Deniz Atesok ,and subsequently for Dave Dodgson a guy who I met at the Istek conference last year. Dave has set up a brilliant blog for ESL teachers to express themselves on a larger platform than the teachers' room at school or a cafe on Istiklal Caddesi. Each week he has a guest blooger posting away. It has been up and running now for over six weeks, so please check it out. It was really enjoyable and I thank him and Deniz for the opportunity to mouth off about my born again passion as an ELTeacher for a very exciting high school, Hisar Schools.

That is why I have decided to get one up and running again on my own. In fact I am putting the final touches to another guest post on Adam Simpson's blog which he will have for posting this week. Thus, once that is done, I plan to approach this blog-site discussing and sharing my methods, ideas and, lets not forget, complaints about the industry, for we wouldn't be ESL teachers without a nag and a moan on a daily and weekly basis.

So, as an opening foray into the blogging world, I will close and finish up Adam's guest blog. Rest assured I will be back very soon.... David M