Multiple Intellegences vs Bloom Taxonomy

by Putra praSetyo

            Last week PETA session had encouraged me to think critically. You should have been thinking why, haven’t been you?

            I am the teacher students and kinda hoping that I would be the next generation of educator. In the classroom, we must able to see the condition of our students’ ability in learning materials. Well, let me say it would not be very easy because understanding and look closer to my students need another ability which is awareness. Even it is hard, somehow I can do it by seeing their habitual activity and behavior in my classroom. However, how if they pretend to be such good kids (lying that they have done the homework by themselves although they don’t)? At least what I am seeking is their ability in learning, not their personal life : )

            So, PETA has been teaching me a lot how to make my future class would be more effective and powerful in learning. One of the ways is making the classroom activities by implementing Bloom Taxonomy or Multiple Intelligences. When I was asked to make classroom activities by choosing those two ways of learning, I chose Multiple Intelligence for my activities. Why? Because I thought it would be more creative and cheerful to implement in my classroom activities. My students will also be happy to do their tasks and assignments based on their talent and intelligence. I am sure that they will do their best in finishing the tasks because they do what they like. However, I am concern about their ability if they are to be asked to do the task out of their intelligence.

            Well, I think I have to combine the Multiple Intelligence and Bloom Taxonomy. I was thinking that implement Bloom Taxonomy in my classroom activities would be more dizzy and hard for me to decide the perfect activities based on my students’ ability level. Bloom Taxonomy makes the activities more challenging in each step. Then, now I am sure that it will be nice if and only if I combine those two ways in my classroom activities. It will be more fun and challenging.

            For example, I will ask my students (who have spatial intelligence) to watch a movie, then they will tell other students about what they see (remembering phase) and after that they will create their own movie (creating phase).