Critical Thinking With TeachThought: Grow Your Teaching

6 Alternatives To Bloom’s Taxonomy For Teachers

Why might you need alternatives to Bloom’s Taxonomy? While wonderful, it neglects important ideas that see the whole child.

Learning leads to knowledge and knowledge leads to theories just like theories lead to knowledge. It’s all circular in such an obvious way.

Graphic organizers allow students to visualize, order, and categorize concepts using verbal representations & visuals.

Guiding inquiry-based learning centers learning on a solving a particular problem or answering a central question.

From part to whole to synonyms and antonyms, to cause and effect and step and sequences, here are good examples for teaching with analogies.

How do you know if your students are thinking critically in the classroom? Here are examples that might be good indicators.

With an authentic audience in PBL, inquiry can help students ask important questions like, ‘Who is our audience and what are their needs?’

By forcing students to distill one relationship in order to understand another, it’s almost impossible to solve analogies without understanding.