Be Your Own Master
Bloom’s Taxonomy is a foundational educational framework for defining and categorizing learning goals. This post explores both the original and revised versions in detail, offering practical examples and strategies for implementation.
Introduction In 1956, Benjamin Bloom with collaborators Max Englehart, Edward Furst, Walter Hill, and David Krathwohl published a framework for categorizing educational goals: Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Familiarly known as Bloom’s Taxonomy, this framework has been applied by generations of K-12 teachers and college instructors in their teaching. The framework elaborated by Bloom and his collaborators consisted of six major categories: