Bloom's Taxonomy

While I'm working on my hybrid classes for fall, I'm focusing on Bloom's Taxonomy.  Students love face to face time.  It's my goal for every minute we have face to face to as beneficial to students as possible.
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Students can learn the bottom levels--remembering & understanding--by reading the ebook.  Connect even has a cool assignment tool that reviews the information with them.  They will be expected to do both of these things before class so we can really work at the applying level up to creation level in class.

I've written up notes guides for each chapter, vocab and grammar.  My plan is to give students the notes guide for the assigned concept/s.  They are to complete it for a participation grade.  This will give them an active learning activity while reading to help encourage them to achieve the remembering and understanding levels of the concepts.

In class, I'll put them into pairs and they will compare their notes.  (This gives accountability as well as a way to work back through the material).  They will also do some practice problems in pairs, moving them into the applying level.  This will be the warm-up into the concept, focusing on the lowest level of Bloom's Taxonomy.  Once we spend a bit of time being sure we all have excellent understanding at this level we'll take the concept on up the pyramid.

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