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Blooms Taxonomy of Measurable Verbs
Benjamin Bloom created a taxonomy of measurable verbs to help us describe and classify observable knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviors and abilities. The theory is based upon the idea that there are levels of observable actions that indicate something is happening in the brain (cognitive activity.) By creating learning objectives using measurable verbs, you indicate explicitly what the student must do in order to demonstrate learning. Verbs that demonstrate Critical Thinking
Blooms Taxonomy Action Verbs
Blooms Taxonomy Verbs
Use verbs aligned to Blooms Taxonomy to create discussion questions and lesson plans that ensure your students thinking progresses to higher levels.
Blooms Verbs
And Matching Assessment Types
Source: The Tenth Annual Curriculum Mapping Institute: Snowbird Utah, July1518, 2004 Adapted from Benjamin Bloom
Watch Out for Verbs that are not Measurable
In order for an objective to give maximum structure to instruction, it should be free of vague or ambiguous words or phrases. The following lists notoriously ambiguous words or phrases which should be avoided so that the intended outcome is concise and explicit.
2. Warm-Up Activities
As a teacher, you always have to start with a warm-up when you begin a class to help the students waking up and start thinking about what they learned previously. The warm-up can be a quick review of the subject or a pre-lesson exercise of the new lesson. At the end of the warm-up, the teacher would take a look at where the student is at in terms of the exposure to the material they are going to learn or have learned in the previous lesson as a review.
Without Technology
Talk About
You have two minutes introduce yourself to your partner.
Now introduce your partner to the group by sharing one interesting fact they told you.
SWITCH! Variations Change the topic by giving a question What did you do on the weekend? What will you do at the weekend?
Freestyle
How well do you know the teacher?
Ask students to write down 5 questions they would like to ask you.
Ask one student to come to the front.
This student will now play the role of you and will guess the answer to five of the students questions.
Give a «point» to the student for each correct answer and an x for an incorrect one.
Each student takes turns guessing until each student has answered 5 questions.
Re-ask questions that were answered incorrectly to gain more information about you.
Once every student has had a chance to be the teacher, answer the questions about you which were left answered incorrectly.
Two Truths and a Lie Two of these statements are true, one is false. Which is which?
A.Im afraid of horses.
B. I love sushi.
C. I have broken my arm right arm twice.
Picture Differences
Another paired activity
Students receive two similar pictures that have small differences Students must communicate to discover what the differences are
No peeking!
Picture That!
Again pair students
One speaker, one drawer
Speaker receives a picture which they must carefully describe to their partner
Partner draws what is described
At the end, compare pictures to judge success!
Level of difficulty can be varied
20 Questions
Give each student a picture cut out from a magazine
Students ask each other yes/no questions to gather information and try to guess each others pictures
Partners or group members may ask up to 20 yes/no questions
Cant Say Yes or No In this game everyone is given a certain number of coins or squares of paper (about 10). Everyone moves around the room starting conversations and asking each other questions. The only rule is that you cannot say the words YES or NO. If you accidentally say one of these words, you have to give a coin or square to the person who you said it to.Try to trick each other by asking questions that you would almost always answer with a yes or no. Think of other ways to trick your friends. Sometimes asking two quick questions in a row works well. (Especially tag questions: Are you new here? This is your first time in America, isnt it?). This game is a great way to practice using small talk and to add variety to your vocabulary. It also makes everyone laugh.
Fact or Fiction
In this game, one person tells a short story about themselves or someone they know or heard about. Usually, it is something funny or crazy. It can be a true story, or something made up. Example: Josh tells a story about his Uncle Leo who sleeps in the nude. One day Uncle Leo was sleepwalking and he went outside and took his dog for a walk. The next-door neighbor was coming home late from work and saw him! She called the police and he got arrested for being naked in public. Everyone around the room has to say whether they think Joshs story is a fact (true) or fiction (made up). Josh reveals the truth when everyone has guessed. Members can take turns telling a story.
Chain Fairy tale
This is a fun writing warm-up. Everyone has a piece of paper and writes the first sentence or two to start a fairy tale (not one that already exists).Example: Once upon a time there was a frog that had no legs. He wanted to get married, but there were no female legless frogs in the land. After one minute the leader will say «SWITCH». At this time the writers have to put down their pens and pass the papers. They cannot finish their sentences. Then, the next writers will continue the story. After about ten minutes you will have as many silly stories to read as you have club members. The leader should warn the writers that they will soon have to wrap-up the story during the last two minutes so that each story has a conclusion. Read all of the stories out loud for a good laugh. You can extend this activity by trying to edit each others writing and spelling errors.
Jeopardy
In this game, which is based on the famous game show Jeopardy, everyone writes down ten answers to questions about themselves. After writing down the answers, people have to form pairs or small groups and try to find out what the questions are. Example: (answer = purple) «What is your favorite colour?» «Blue.» «What colour do you hate?» «Green.» «What colour is your underwear?» «Purple!» You can stop at three guesses if you want, or keep going until someone in the club can guess the question.