If you teach anything at any level you might already know what Bloom’s Taxonomy is. If this term is a new to you here is a nice definition and how this applies to teaching: Bloom’s Taxonomy was created by Benjamin Bloom in 1956, published as a kind of classification of learning outcomes and objectives that have, in the more than half-century since, been used for everything from framing digital tasks and evaluating apps to writing questions and assessments.
Bloom’s Taxonomy is a hierarchical ordering of cognitive skills that can, among countless other uses, help teachers teach and students learn. The Bloom’s Taxonomy framework can be used to create assessments, evaluate the complexity of assignments, increase the rigor of a lesson, simplify an activity to help personalize learning, design a summative assessment, plan project based learning, frame a group discussion and more. Because it simply provides an order for cognitive behaviors, it can be applied to almost anything.