Importance of Bloom's Taxonomy

Day in and day out our role as educators advances. Not only are we responsible for building students’ character, we are obligated to teach them how to think. We need our students to be able to approach problems and complications in various and innovative ways, and examine them from different perspectives. They must be able to recall previously learned information to understand what is being taught, apply it in the right areas, analyze situations, synthesize by putting together the material that is learned and finally, evaluate according to given standards, the last six being the basic elements of Bloom’s taxonomy. The more we as teachers are aware of how important it is to help our students reach higher levels of thinking the more likely our students are able to succeed. In other cases it was proven that truth-seeking, open-mindedness, self-confidence, and maturity also improved along critical thinking when teachers aimed to increase students’ thinking abilities. If we are to find lasting and honest success as teachers it is crucial that we move away from teaching young minds by rote and move towards the innovation and expansion of students’ minds by training them as well as ourselves, to use higher levels of thinking.  A large mass of cognitive research has overwhelming proven that problem solving and reasoning engage our children on levels that far exceed traditional mechanical, parrot-fashioned, methods of old. It is obvious that Bloom’s Taxonomy is a foundation for learning that is easily applicable in a classroom environment when success of students is put first and foremost.