Bloom’s Taxonomy
vs.
The Nine National Standards for Music Education
Bloom’s Taxonomy, to me, seems like a much more generalized system of classification. It applies not only to children but to anyone in any learning experience or opportunity. The standards for music education are much more specific. They’re split up into age and grades. Each age range is then broken up into the nine standards.
At the same time, Bloom’s Taxonomy does go more into depth in terms of the steps and methods that a learner goes through. . It supports the fact that there are different types of learning. In the taxonomy, it lists three different domains of educational activities: Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor. All three of these learning types are important and can be found within the music classroom. It seems that Bloom’s Taxonomy is like the building blocks for the nine standards. Each standard can be learned and differentiated learning can be achieved by using Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Great post! Think about the connections like this: the 9 national standards progress in a way that the more an expert the student becomes with the fundamental content, the higher levels of thinking (blooms) are being engaged. It is our goal--for anyone who is instructing at any level for any content--to engage the learner in a way that they eventually become their own teacher. The higher levels of Blooms encourages more of a guided learning situation rather than a teacher-centered situation: the teacher becomes the facilitator rather than the vehicle for information delivery. Tailor your lessons/projects in such a way, especially when reinforcement activities are delivered. You will also become extremely aware of how different people need various methods of instruction (differentiated learning).
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