Who was Benjamin Bloom?

Benjamin Bloom was an educational psychologist, who created Bloom's Taxonomy which is a categorized level of abstraction of questions that frequently take place in educational settings. It also became a taxonomy that included three domains; cognitive, psychomotor, and affective. The following are the six levels of thinking: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. I strongly think that his research made a major contribution to literacy instruction and practice. I believe a teacher can utilize these categories by testing their student’s analytical ability. As a music educator I feel like I can have students evaluate each other’s playing. Even if you have two groups and have each group evaluate each other. By doing this students can listen and give musical suggestions using musical language. Students will be able to use active listening and listen for very small a thing which is very hard to do and listen for. I feel if students can pick out one thing or give a suggestion to another student Overall, I feel we should use Bloom’s taxonomy for ideas on how to push students to a higher thinking level.