Blooming Innovations: How to Teach and Study

Effectively with Questions

Gretchen Seif, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT

Layne Madden, COM3

Lisa Kerr, PhD

5% Lecture

10%Reading

20%Audiovisual

30%Demonstration

50%Discussion Group

75%Practice by Doing

90%Teaching Others/Use of Learning

Estimated Typical Learner

Retention

SC Dept of Education

Memories in Mayberry

Barney Fife

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrLWxa-cKKc

Bloom’s Taxonomy

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For Educators & Students

• Generate learning activities across various cognitive levels.

• Match learning objectives and learning activities.

• Identify gaps between teaching and testing.

Learning objectives should be measurable.

“Task-oriented question construction wheel”

Verbs

Project type

Type of learner

Adapted from http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2009/07/use-blooms-taxonomy-wheel-for-writing.html

For Today

•Creating and using questions that engage higher orders of thinking to promote deeper processing and, therefore, better understanding of material.