Up the Bloom Taxonomy!

It is our responsibility to get students, at every opportunity, to evaluate the knowledge they are creating. The most useful tool any student can learn to wield is the ability to take some new information talk about it, put it in their own language (thus appropriating it as their own constructed knowledge), and then critique/judge/test for holes in this bit of knowledge.

I intend to mostly leave room in lessons for students to be able to first have access to new information and then for them to work out theories, concepts, meanings in groups. Bouncing ideas off of their peers, they will be able to hear the concepts in the language of other students, and challenge others' conceptions as well as have their conceptions be challenged.

As their teacher I will step in before and after group discussion to help them organize the information they are creating and then synthesize their findings - essentially I will nudge them towards the top of Bloom's taxonomy throughout the lesson and by the end of the lesson I will give them space to show/test their skills on their own.