What are the essential skills and/or learning outcomes you want your students to know and be able to do that relate to cognitive learning?
From our dicussions in class, we have all seemed to agree on the importance of what students are learning in the classroom. Learning outcomes can be a useful guide both for the teacher and the students on what is expected. I would want to focus on the student-centered approach so that my students can show and explain what they learned instead of just memorizing facts to put on a summative test. I will want my students to be able to apply their learning to real world situations and find meaning behind their new knowledge and/or assignments. I feel that a lot of this comes from performance based assessments and using formative assessments throughout lessons. When students can demonstrate or explain what they have learned, they have come to a deeper understanding of the content.
When writing this blog I thought a lot of about the Science Methods course I just took. We discussed a lot about the objectives we put in lesson or activity plans, and how we can enhance these objectives with Bloom's Taxonomy. Certain words can completely change our objectives and outcomes of what we want our students to learn and can take learning one step further. For example, having students explain, identify, compare and contrast, demonstrate, etc. You can take your students' from the simplest behavior to the most complex.
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