AGRI 460: Teaching Agricultural Education (Ryan)

Indiana University's learning outcome generator is a helpful way to learn how to apply Bloom's Taxonomy levels of learning and verbs to create strong learning objectives for your teaching.

Bloom's Taxonomy is used to classify learning objectives and skills that they expect their students to have as an outcome of instruction. Learn about Bloom's Taxonomy and how to use it and see examples of learning objectives at each level.

University of Arkansas provides tips for using Blooms Taxonomy to create stronger learning objectives. The before and after examples really help beginning instructors.

To assist with your lesson planning, think of learning objectives, assessment, and instructional activities as a three-legged stool. See how they are interdependent and review the self-check questions to help you develop a strong lesson plan.

The questions you ask your students in discussions and assignment prompts are important. This set of example questions at each stage of Bloom's Taxonomy allow you as the educator to address topics at a higher level to promote critical thinking and student learning.

Example assessments that help you determine whether students are understanding and applying what you are teaching. Includes assessment strategies such as one minute paper, muddiest point, chain notes, journals, and others.

Tons of ideas to integrate alternative formative assessment into your instruction (it feels like an activity for students but also lets you know as an instructor where the students are in their learning)