GT+Weekly+Teaching+Strategy+Bloom's+Taxonomy

= = == = GT Weekly Teaching Strategy: Bloom's Taxonomy = = = BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

// Bloom’s taxonomy of thinking serves as the basis for all thinking and learning. Incorporate higher-order thinking into your daily lessons to meet the needs of your GT and highly able students. //

__ Higher-Order Thinking __

**Create/Synthesize**--Putting elements together to form a novel and coherent whole or to make an original product. · Generating · Planning · Producing

**Evaluate-**-Making judgments based on criteria and standards. · Checking · Critiquing

**Analyze**--Breaking material into its constituent parts and detecting how the parts relate to one another and to an overall structure or purpose. · Differentiating · Organizing · Attributing __ Lower-Order Thinking __

**Apply**--Carrying out or using a procedure in a given situation. · Executing · Implementing

**Understand**--Determining the meaning of instructional messages; including oral, written, and graphic communication.
 * Interpreting
 * Exemplifying
 * Classifying
 * Summarizing
 * Inferring
 * Comparing
 * Explaining

**Remember**--Retrieving relevant knowledge from long-term memory.
 * Recognizing
 * Recalling

Bloom's Power Words and Question Prompts