Assignment 5 Reflection

Incorporating Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and the Super 3 into my unit planner was fairly simple.  I can see how concentrating on these two important critical thinking foci really enhances your lessons for an entire unit.  Teaching lessons day by day, you would never have the time or mental energy to stop and reflect on how these strategies can be incorporated.  By focusing on an entire previously completed unit at a time, for a short period of time, a teacher can ensure that Bloom's is dispersed appropriately for specific steps of learning to occur (especially since Blooms builds on itself).  Additionally, making a concerted effort to focus on the steps of the Super 3 ensures that your students are getting at least some exposure to information literacy.

What's the moral of the story here?  If you want to teach effectively, you need to plan effectively and conscientiously.  Take some current unit planners, and boost their worth by adding two important strategies, Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and the Super 3, to increase your students' ability to think critically, think creatively, problem solve and use their higher-order thinking skills.  Even if you only change/add a few things, you can revisit the unit planner the next year to complete the process again.