Devotion

As I reference, the textbook “Understanding Child Development” by Rosalind Charlesworth with his idea on education we can look back on “Jean Piaget “who is known for his work on Cognitive Developmental: Development leads to language, concepts, problem solving, and intellectual needs" (p10). “Piaget’s theory explains how individuals think, understand, and learn. Piaget’s believed that intelligence is the cognitive, or mental, process by which children acquire knowledge.

Bloom’s Taxonomy is a classification of learning objectives in education that was developed by a committee of educators in the late 1940s to early 1950s. It shows us that lower level knowledge must be mastered

Connecting education with good experiences will allow a child to feel secure at school and realise their full potential.

Cognitive development - One of the theorists behind this theory was Jean Piaget who was a zoologist who

Write one developmentally appropriate learning objective for the goal related to each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy.

At the centre of Piaget's theory is the principle that cognitive development occurs in a series of four distinct, universal stages, each characterized by increasingly sophisticated and

Each learning experience builds on the one prior to it as the students will gradually be introduced to the key vocabulary terms for this topic. Students will first use terms such as bigger or smaller quantity then continue onto learning the academic terms greater and less quantities; lastly, students will learn the mathematical symbols for the key vocabulary terms. Throughout the entirety of the learning experiences, students will use their prior knowledge from the other lesson in order to gain a deeper understanding of the current learning experience. The different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy are implemented into the lessons as students will first learn to compare quantities, followed by comprehending the academic terms of greater, equal, and less, applying the terms to the symbols, and lastly, reaching the highest level of Bloom’s where students combine all learned information to compose their own problems. Students will be combatively assessed in order to conclude all the learning segments for this topic.]

Theory can inform and guide practice to allow individuals to strengthen and/or reinforce certain areas of study. With the case of high-stakes standardized tests, students are being taught at lower levels of cognition, thus impacting their cognitive development for application in furthering education and career readiness. Given that education plays a significant role in social status and economic prosperity, school should prepare students with skills to be able to prosper and become successful. This paper will discuss how Bloom’s Taxonomy can inform educational practice to enhance higher order cognition

“What any person in the world can learn almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning” (Bloom, 2017). This belief was held by Dr. Bloom in 1956 when he and his team created Bloom’s Taxonomy. Since then educators have been utilizing these “goals of the learning process” (Clark, 2015) and making assumptions of its usage and implications. I too did have assumptions but have not thought about how I developed them or how they would affect my use of the taxonomy. When starting this reflection I held three assumptions true about Bloom’s Taxonomy. The first is if the educator uses Bloom’s Taxonomy for planning through assessment, then the student will develop higher order thinking skills. Secondly, a student can move on to a higher order thinking level only if they first mastered a lower order thinking level. Thirdly, if educations use different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy in lessons students will retain more information. Interestingly, I uncovered two additional assumptions that I did not know I had. The first of which is that the focus on cognitive development of Bloom’s devalues importance of other domains. The other is that Bloom’s Taxonomy is used only by educators in K-12 and college. Here are some things I understand about this subject that informed or changed

In this course I learned a lot of new things, and got refreshers on things I had learned in the past. It was designed to introduce us to Blackboard, and understand online learning. We were taught our learning styles, figure out our goals, develop critical thinking skills, and learn about APA styling. Discovering my learning style will help me with the future of my courses, I will know what direction I need to take when completing my assignments.

Bloom’s taxonomy can be used in the field of psychology to solve problems. Psychology focuses on the study of the mind and human behavior, using the taxonomy will serve as a tool for understanding cognition and thinking process. As a practitioner a common goal is to help others solve problems. The taxonomy will help me as a practitioner to analyze the problem with a client or student. The use of the taxonomy will help to promote new ideas and approaches through evaluation before making final decisions when helping clients. The taxonomy can help identify the needs of the client, ways to help the client, and what methods have and has not worked for the client as a practitioner in psychology. As a graduate learner in psychology, the taxonomy

Piaget is said to be the founder of cognitive development, he has changed the field of developmental psychology and because of him we no longer discussing strategies, rule-governed behaviors and representations but we do talk a lot about stimulus generalization, mental age, Conditioning, and

Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development is one the most widely accepted, his four stages of development are age based.

Developmental psychology is the point of view that occurs in learners over the course of a period of time. The developmental perspective includes theories that are continuous and discontinuous. Discontinuous theories are stage-like. The processes of learning and development involve distinct stages, which are characterized by qualitative differences in behavior. Theorists who use discontinuous theories use a specific beginning and end period for each stage. Continuous theories explain that learning and development generally happen in incremental processes. Learning involves changes throughout the lifespan. “Contemporary views on the nature of cognitive development have been vastly influenced by the work of one man. This was Jean Piaget (1896-1980), once a biologist, who turned his

Bloom’s Taxonomy was created by Benjamin Bloom in 1956. Bloom identified that there were three categories of learning. Cognitive: Mental skills (knowledge) Affective: Growth in feelings or emotional areas (attitude) Psychomotor: Manual or physical skills (skills).