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Familiar with Bloom’s Taxonomy But Don’t Know How to Build Aligned Instructional Objectives?


Many teachers I talk to claim that they know Bloom’s taxonomy, the old and the updated one, they heard other teachers talk about it, they heard it in seminars, in workshops, and the even read about it. However, when asked to build instructional objectives based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, this is where why founder. This is where Instructional Objective Builder, developed by Arizona Stat University Teach Online and designed by James Basore. It is not a fancy too as you look at it, but it gives the right scaffold for teachers to build their instructional objectives based on Bloom’s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain. Watch the quick overview below.

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  1. yes this is interesting technique
    i shall try it when i learn taxonomy

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