Blogging About Bloom and Marzano

As I reflected and researched on how Bloom’s Taxonomy and Robert Marzano’s 9 Instructional Strategies form a cohesive partnership in my life as an educator, it is apparent that these two instructional tools are more than words. Each strategy has presented a method for reaching the students I have taught , over the last four years. These strategies will continue to be apart of my teaching long into the future and directly impact how students learn and interact.
Both Bloom and Marzano directed teachers to the vital importance of every word they choose, the strategies continue to be key components to daily instruction and lesson planning. By establishing clear and researched based instructional strategies, Robert Marzano allowed educators to focus on the nine most reoccurring and impacting staples in teaching. These components help educators to make the most or their already limited teaching time.
For instance, when teachers focus on Identifying Similarities and Differences this aids students in sharping their awareness of the crucial details. The attention to specific components supports students comprehending and effectively implementing scientific laws, mathematical formulas, historical facts, and other essential content based topics. This also applies to the other eight strategies: Summarizing and Note-Taking, Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition, Homework and Practice, Nonlinguistic Representations, Cooperative Learning, Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback, Generating and Testing Hypothesis, and Questions, Cues, and Advance Organizers. Each of the strategies work in synchronization with one another and are the crucial portions of a teachers instructional array.
In structuring lessons, objectives, and questions with Bloom’s Taxonomy, it is easy to observe why they are at the forefront of instructional methodology for all educators. Bloom helps teachers to see the importance of conscious word choice and progressive development of students mastery over all content areas. I believe that my background knowledge of Bloom’s Taxonomy and Marzano’s 9 Instructional Strategies will only add to my effectiveness as a lesson planner including improving teacher to student feedback, increasing the positive and encouraging tone of the classroom, strengthen classroom management, and enriching daily lessons. This all leads to facilitating student achievement and supporting mastery of the curriculum.
While I am not currently teaching, I actively try to implement both Bloom’s Taxonomy and Marzano’s 9 Instructional Strategies. One investment I have made to help me be more conscientious in my daily teaching, included the purchase of a Bloom’s Taxonomy flip chart book. I plan to use this for lesson planning and to carry around the classroom when assessing student comprehension. I feel that meeting Marzano’s 9 Instructional Strategies is a natural part of my school day and plan to continue to use my matrix on the strategies when lesson planning.
Technology opens many doors and allows easy methods for communication. There are at least six ways, I could share this information with my colleagues and friends. These methods would include a blog, wiki, website, group email, a Prezi presentation, and the distribution of my matrix. This would provide them with a refresher of Bloom’s Taxonomy and Marzano’s 9 Instructional Strategies, as well as encourage colleagues to evaluate how effectively they utilize these tools. The most important information that I would want to share is that all educators need to be consciously using these strategies in daily instruction. I also feel that they should to use whichever tool or application process on these two areas that best fits their own needs.