ED 204

FACILITATING LEARNER-
CENTERED TEACHING
Unit 4: Facilitative Teaching
Topics: Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy & The Six
Thinking Hats

Reporter: Jane A. Padre-e

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Course Facilitator: Mary Jean F. Cataluña Ed.D
Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
In the field of education, Benjamin Bloom
(1913-1999) is a name that resounds. He is an
educational psychologist whose seminal work
became a framework of determining ups
learning objectives or the level of cognitive
abilities expected of a learner to achieve after
instruction. The taxonomy however, was revised
by Krathwohl and Andersen (2002). This revised
Bloom’s Taxonomy categorizes thinking into six
categories or levels namely, Creating,
Evaluating, Analyzing, Applying, Understanding
and Remembering.
 Some Instructional Stance that Can
Promote Higher Order Thinking
Skills
• Require your learners to create something out
from the ordinary.
• Be supportive of your learners’ curiosity and
open to their suggestions. Being enthusiastic and
welcoming to their ideas is an effective attitude.
• Be open to contradictions or opposing ideas.
• Provide ample exposure of new patterns and twist to
your learners and guide them to look at old ways
from a fresher perspective.
• Constructively be critical about new ideas so test
these because usually fine tuning and enhancing are
required.
Some guidelines that Represented an
Effective in Asking Questions to the
Learners
• Plan Good Questions
Make question that are focus-
specific rather than having a vague
or general one.

• Open-Ended Questions are Good

Ask more open-ended questions and not
just a one word or a phrase correct answer
to the question.
 Some guidelines that Represented an
Effective in Asking Questions to the
Learners

• Give Serious Attention to

Questions
Wait time should be observed when
asking a well-planned question.
Allow the learners to process their
thoughts.
Six Thinking Hats
Creativity is the highest level of Bloom’s
Revised Taxonomy. This means that if you
facilitate a class that is learners-centered, you
can design activities that will hone their
creativity thinking skills.
Coloured Hat Think of Detailed Description

The white hat is about data and

information. It is used to record
White paper information that is currently
available and to identify further
information that may be needed.

The red hat allows people to put

Fire and Warmth forward feelings without
justification or prejudice.
 The yellow hat is for positive
view of things. It looks for
benefits in a situation. That is
Sunshine encourages a positive view
even in people who are
always critical.

The black hat relates caution.

It is used for critical
A stern judge judgement. Sometimes it is
easy to overuse the black hat.
 The green hat is for creative
Vegetation and thinking and generating new
rich growth ideas. This is your creative
thinking cap.

The blue hat is about

process control. It is used
The sky and for thinking about thinking.
overview The blue hat ask for
summaries, conclusions and
decisions.
“Creative thinking is not
a talent; it is a skill that
can be learned. It
empowers people by
adding strength to their
natural abilities which
improves teamwork,
productivity, and where
appropriate, profits.”—
Edward de Bono
Thank you!
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