P&S: BSEd En 3-1D Dr. Silvia C. Ambag
Reflection Paper
A future teacher must study the
theories in learning to apply it in the working years as a teacher. One of the
learning theories is the Bloom’s Taxonomy. Bloom’s Taxonomy is very important
especially to the teachers in the high school years. On the 2nd week
of our lecture time in Educational Technology, we tackled the Bloom’s Taxonomy
wherein we related all what is said in the theory in the technology aspect. We
have learned so many things about the bloom’s taxonomy.
I have learned that Bloom’s Taxonomy is a way to motivate
the educators to focus on the three domains, the cognitive, affective and
psychomotor. In every domain there are some skills that the student must
undergo. The cognitive domain revolves around knowledge, comprehension, and
critical thinking on a particular topic. There are six levels in the taxonomy
wherein it moves from the lowest to the highest order process. These six levels
are the knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation, and
synthesis. On the affective domain, it describes the way people react
emotionally and their ability to feel other living things emotion. It has five
levels which begin from the lowest level or the receiving to the highest level
or the characterizing. The other levels are the responding, valuing, and
organizing. The last domain is the psychomotor domain. It describes the ability
to physically manipulate a tool or instrument like a hand or a hammer.
Psychomotor objectives usually focus on change and/or development in behavior
and/or skills. Bloom did not create subcategories for skills in psychomotor but
other educators created their own taxonomies. It consist the perception, set,
guided response, mechanism, complex overt response, adaptation, and
origination. Bloom’s taxonomy serves as the backbone of many teaching
philosophies, in particular those that learn more toward skills rather than
content. Bloom’s taxonomy can be used as a teaching tool to help balance
assessment and evaluative questions in class, assignments and texts to ensure all
orders of thinking are exercised in student’s learning.
I have learned so many things in this topic that I can
apply in my teaching years. I find Bloom’s Taxonomy helpful especially when I
reach the peak of my profession.
