ELC conducts its First Practical Workshop on Bloom’s Taxonomy

As per one of the decisions made by the College Academic Committee to conduct practical workshops on Bloom's Taxonomy in line with the OQF, the ELC decided to conduct a series of Workshops on Bloom's Taxonomy. The Research Committee facilitated the first of these workshops on the 5th of June, at 11:00 am, in classrooms 2017-2018. Joseph Vadakel and Jose Chandapillai were the presenters. 

Ms. Anuradha, the moderator of the workshop, welcomed the attendees. She emphasized that Bloom’s Taxonomy is used to create learning outcomes and to create assessment parameters that accurately report students’ progress on these learning outcomes.  

Mr.Joseph handled the first part of the session and stated that not many teachers are aware of Bloom’s Taxonomy, as per the survey that was taken in ICT and hoped that teachers would use Bloom’s Taxonomy consciously in teaching and assessing. He showed the participants a video, which showed the pyramid of lower order thinking skills, such as remember, understand, apply, and higher order thinking skills like: analyze, evaluate and create, suitable for all learners, from the Foundation to Advanced level. After that, Mr.Joseph gave a reading passage about a farmer’s tale, with questions and instructions. The teachers had to underline the action verbs in each question or instruction and categorize them under the appropriate label of lower order thinking skills, such as: remember and understand. The activity was done in groups, with some teachers conferring with others, as to which label each verb belonged to.

Mr.Jose handled the next part of the session, where the teachers were given another handout with a reading passage taken from the current book Pathways used in the Foundation programme and a list of Bloom’s Taxonomy action verbs, categorized under remembering and understanding. The participants were asked to read the passage and prepare questions making using of these verbs. Most of the participants shared their questions in the end.

Mr.Jabez, a member of the research committee also took this opportunity to encourage staff to form research and consultancy teams, which is according to criterion