Reflections on Bloom's Taxonomy in The Learning Process

Synthesis

Evaluation

Knowing these levels allows teachers to organize instructional objectives, promoting the right development of our students’ superior thinking skills. And if a student follows a teaching-learning process correctly, she should have gained new knowledge or skills.

In this hierarchy, surpassing a level depends on the student’s ability to operate at that level and the lower ones.

Most current schools, in my opinion, take these levels of thought into account, but the sequence provided by Bloom is not strictly followed because there is more flexibility and everything depends on the material or skill worked on, as well as the teacher.

In educational environments, we must teach our children to think to build and train their superior executive functions: organize, experiment, differentiate, prioritize, self-regulate, manage time, be flexible, and so on.

Furthermore, I believe it is workable to teach more about how to structure, construct thinking, and learn habits that help us create new meaningful information from what we currently know than how to think. 

For example, if I memorize a text, I will know less than someone who, besides remembering it, understands how to connect it to other text. Understands how to use that text in a particular context for a specific function. Understands how to dismember the text into parts, reconstruct it, and finally understands how to write a different, even better, text than the initial text. 

To summarize, I believe it is both viable and necessary at this time to develop an educational project that works at all levels of the mind. Indeed, I think that the project should include competencies and abilities that our students will need to handle in order to face the present and the future, such as emotional intelligence, critical thinking, teamwork, the development of intrapersonal intelligence, the ability to negotiate and make decisions, and so on. 

I recommend the article "7 '21st Century Skills' Your Kids Should Learn" (www.news24.com, 8/12/2016), with which I generally agree.