Week 4 Reflection

 This week was based on two tools that help guide lessons and lesson planning, Bloom's Taxonomy and Webb's Depths of Knowledge. I've learned about Bloom's before, but what I never realized was how he uses verbs to differentiate and define the six different levels. For example, in the Remembering stage, the verbs 'recognizing' and 'recalling' are used to define that stage. These verbs can be used to help write objectives for students when directing the objective at a specific stage on the pyramid. 

    Webb's Depth of Knowledge is new to me, this week being the first hearing of it. Webb's is kind of the opposite of Bloom's, where he does not define the stages by verbs but by activities' complexity. For example, in the first of the four different stages, a child should be able to recall information, such as a fact, definition, term, or performance of a simple procedure, like listing animals that have tails. Webb focuses on the specific activity and analyzes the student's process of thinking. 

    In my future instruction, I would love to use Bloom's as a way to help focus my lesson plans and objectives, making sure most of my students are hitting each stage one at a time. With Webb's, I think I would want to use it more for assessing my students during learning and using it to focus on the informal and formal assessments for my students.