Bloom’s Taxonomy as an outline for a learning experience
By Nick at 23 November, 2006, 3:56 pm
How can Bloom’s Taxonomy be an outline for a learning experience?
As an assistant grocery manager at a supermarket, my first task would be to train my associates on planning and building displays. The grocery is the largest department in the supermarket and presentation is key to success. All associates need to have the skills to be able to fully participate in the operation of the supermarket in order to increase our sales. A training program on merchandising techniques would be the first step to achieving that goal.
We could use Bloom’s Taxonomy to develop a training program for stock clerks. The first step in the program would be to present the stock clerks with the knowledge about merchandising techniques. The information about merchandising would come from the book Food Merchandising by Cornell University, sale letter, chart letter, and various photos, illustrations, and videos of other stock clerks building displays. At the end of this phase, test the trainees with multiple choice and essay questions. Multiple choice type of tests is an excellent technique for assessing knowledge acquisition, while essay tests are excellent for assessing comprehension. Essay tests allow the learner to restate in their own words what they read about food merchandising. Only after successfully passing these tests can the trainees move to the next step.
The next steps would be to apply what they have learned and analyze their work. This can be done in the actual work environment with their supervisor and plan and build displays for the upcoming week. However, before actually building the displays, the stock clerks would then follow either a lead stock clerk or supervisor. Watching him go through the process of building a display. Having the stock clerks go directly to building display from the training environment would be like throwing them to the wolves. That would be setting them up to fail instead of to succeed.
After having them go through the process of building a display, I would then have them critically reflect on their work. It is through critical reflection that true learning can occur, because the trainees can look back at their work and look for areas to improve.
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