Defining aims with clear lesson objectives

What is the goal of your lesson? When you design a lesson, it's really important to have a clear picture of the lesson objective. In other words, what do you want the children to be able to do at the end of the lesson? The clearer your objective, the easier it is to design a … Continue reading Defining aims with clear lesson objectives

Teaching from the top-down: flipping Bloom’s taxonomy

How many of us have learned about Bloom's taxonomy, back in the days we went to college?  Very likely, one learned to start teaching at the base: knowledge and comprehension, before moving on to the higher levels of application and analysis.  And maybe, just maybe the children would be clever enough to move on to … Continue reading Teaching from the top-down: flipping Bloom’s taxonomy