7 Ways to Use Bloom’s Taxonomy in Class

Easy ways to improve your students’ critical thinking skills.

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Bloom’s taxonomy is a learning framework used by millions of educators worldwide.

It was created to simplify the learning process into six levels and gives educators a way to plan lessons, discuss learning outcomes and make curricula. Using it effectively will improve your students’ critical thinking. This article looks at seven ways we can use it in our classrooms.

The Levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy

We need to know the levels before we can use them.

The latest version of the levels was created in 2001, and the levels are the same as the image at the top of the newsletter. They’re often shown as a pyramid, but one skill isn’t ‘better’ than the others — they’re all essential to learning.

Starting from the first level, they are:

1. Remember

2. Understand

3. Apply

4. Analyze

5. Evaluate

6. Create