Today we spent the majority of class time discussing lesson plans. There are many parts to a lesson plan and each is important. To begin a lesson plan, one must first look at the standards. From there, one must create instructional objectives and goals. Once you have these elements, you use them to help develop the rest of the plan. This would include assessment, set, focus questions, strategies, activities, etc. It is extremely important for a teacher to know and understand how to write a good lesson plan. They are a part of every day life in education.
Bloom's Taxonomy was also a topic of discussion today. In a widely accepted taxonomy of objectives, Bloom and his associates arranged cognitive objectives into classifications according to the complexity of the skills and abilities. From lowest to highest Bloom's Taxonomy is knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. There have been some new terms created for these levels, but I prefer to to use the old ones. We also discussed different questions to ask to promote thinking at each level. It is important for educators to understand Bloom's so that they can get learners thinking on many different levels.
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