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Bloom's Taxonomy and the Introduction to Black Church Studies Course [IBCS] at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary - Fall 2018
Proposal abstract :
Bloom's Taxonomy outlines 6 levels of increasingly complex learning skills. Those levels are: Remember-Understand-Apply-Analyze-Evaluate-Create. In my experience teaching seminarians (15 years), I've found that my best students are routinely able to rise to level 4 or 5 (analyze-evaluate) in their learning; most of the other students rise to level 2 or 3. In order to respond holistically, proactively, and creatively to complex, multi-dimensional problems and opportunities in ministry, students need to learn to operate at all levels, and rise to Level 6 in both practice and habit. I would like to test this taxonomy and this theory this Fall 2018 in the Introduction to Black Church Studies class at Louisville Presbyterian Theology Seminary.
Learning Abstract :
I learned that intelligent experimentation using dialectics and Bloom's taxonomy can work. As a heuristic device for teaching both modes work well together, and are excellent and understandable by students. Students in this introductory class appreciated going beyond reading and writing to creativity and experimentation in learning. They seemed excited to be in the class because of both the material and the method. I too enjoyed the experimental aspect of the dialectics and the taxonomy. I will continue to use both. What might your Project contribute to the conversation on teaching and learning? I can contribute the combination of dialectics and the taxonomy as an effective tool in a theological or social science classroom where the learning outcomes are flexible and the assignments are malleable. It was joyful for me, and I hope the students, to test these methods.
Bloom's Taxonomy outlines 6 levels of increasingly complex learning skills. Those levels are: Remember-Understand-Apply-Analyze-Evaluate-Create. In my experience teaching seminarians (15 years), I've found that my best students are routinely able to rise to level 4 or 5 (analyze-evaluate) in their learning; most of the other students rise to level 2 or 3. In order to respond holistically, proactively, and creatively to complex, multi-dimensional problems and opportunities in ministry, students need to learn to operate at all levels, and rise to Level 6 in both practice and habit. I would like to test this taxonomy and this theory this Fall 2018 in the Introduction to Black Church Studies class at Louisville Presbyterian Theology Seminary.
Learning Abstract :
I learned that intelligent experimentation using dialectics and Bloom's taxonomy can work. As a heuristic device for teaching both modes work well together, and are excellent and understandable by students. Students in this introductory class appreciated going beyond reading and writing to creativity and experimentation in learning. They seemed excited to be in the class because of both the material and the method. I too enjoyed the experimental aspect of the dialectics and the taxonomy. I will continue to use both. What might your Project contribute to the conversation on teaching and learning? I can contribute the combination of dialectics and the taxonomy as an effective tool in a theological or social science classroom where the learning outcomes are flexible and the assignments are malleable. It was joyful for me, and I hope the students, to test these methods.