2.5 Bloom's Taxonomy and Marzano's Strategies

           As a future instructor and current administrator having a better understanding of both Bloom’s taxonomy and Marzano’s strategies will help me to connect the strategies needed to obtain the level of thinking that I want the student to achieve.  It will help me to understand what techniques or applications are better suited for a certain subject or situation.  It will help me to map out where I need to start and what outcomes I need students to achieve.  Today with all the state and national standards instructors need better tools to plan.   

           Currently I am not an instructor and I am unable to effectively use the applications of Bloom’s taxonomy or Marzano’s strategies.  Since I am working with a consortium of partners in different states there are times that I have to think outside the box of normal training and take into consideration how I can engage people from a distance.   I need to understand what level of thinking I want to help promote and what strategies I need to use to get the wanted outcome.  Tools that I have used or have been used within the consortium are web casting, phone conferences, power points, wikis, web sites, anamoto and prezis. I also have to collaborate, verify, summarize and critique the work of others and I am also critiqued. 

            I am taking a professional development class at Pueblo Community College for certification of on-line instruction using D2L and hope to share items that I am learning about Blooms’ taxonomy and Marzano’s strategies with the other participants when possible. 

      The applications that have interested me the most and I would like to share with others are: 

      Creating or generating new ideas or ways of viewing things, setting goals and objectives.

      Evaluating or judging the value of ideas and applying standards, asking questions and giving positive feedback.

           Tools that I might use or want to learn about are in the creative area and I would like to use wikis, video games, podcasts, blogging, digital stories. This would help to promote transformation, imagination, inventing and creativity. To promote evaluating I might use peer editing, collaborating, prioritizing, reporting and some debating.

     The importance is to understand what tools are needed to obtain the objectives or goals we want the student to achieve.  We also need to know how to connect the strategies to get to the end result.  It would be creating a road map for a class and for each individual student.