Blooms is what you should build your lessons
Competency-based learning should be focused on knowledge acquisition to support workforce participation and/or be student-centered. The idea of teaching to competencies resonates with me. I've worked in workforce development for years and the need for industry recognized credentials has remained a necessity. As we prepare our students and deliver content, our focus should remain on these outcomes.
The shop/lab environment allows students to have a hand-on approach to learning. This allows students to experiment, model, test, fail and/or succeed, and move on with their learning at their own pace. It is probably the best type of learning because it is naturally more self-paced. The levels of Bloom's Taxonomy can mirror the levels that students are progressing through with their learning.
Use all of the taxonomy to ensure a complete process.
Comment on Will Jones's post: Very well stated!!
Comment on Omar Muneeb's post: Amen brother!!!!
I believe that CTE education hit all three of Blooms areas much more readily than most academic core areas due to the fact that the pyscomotor and affective are engaged much more often than in most academic classes,
I find great value in providing students with competency based learning opportunities. However, I do see where opponents are coming from when they say that clear objectives must be established in all three domains in order for the experience to become legitimate and subjective, demonstrating that students think critically and apply the theoretical practices into real world applications.
Being in a tech school, we have implemented competency-based learning. stand and deliver is just 1 part
Using Bloom's Taxonomy will help you become an effective Instructor
Bloom's taxonomy can be used in teaching by presenting the goals for the assignment, student accomplishing assignment , and finished grade. Hopefully along the journey the student with interaction from teacher and fellow students was able to see a reason for their project. How it can help them in the future, and how they have progressed in thinking.
being a coach this is very easy to see in real time, it also is proven all domaines need to be applied.
I've learned that there is three domains to human development. Cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. and that the cognitive deal with recall, recognition of the knowledge and development of intellectual skills.
when teaching especially in lab situations it is important to make lesson relevant to the student's career field. Using Bloom's Taxonomy is important.
Bloom is important for developing clinical and lab assignments
I learned that competency based training is actually a logical tool that can be used in the classroom.
Blooms taxonomy helps students connect classroom learning into real world outcomes.
Competency based instruction using Bloom's taxonomy clarifies things for the student, no matter what age or grade level
I believe competency training certainly has a place in the training of all people who's jobs require detailed and precise performance, like nursing. The use of Bloom's taxonomy is what helps instructors ensure they are providing the best possibility training at the level required for our students to form beginning level competencies in their future profession.
I like the part about industry settings the standard not the instructor. We are always reaching out to industry asking what is needed and what is changing to better prepare our students when they graduate.
