My undergraduate degree is in athletic training, and I feel the level of Bloom's taxonomy used most depended on our level of schooling and experience. As I would assume anywhere as you learn you start with basics and work up.
As a freshman and sophomore, it was overwhelmingly remember and understand. When we had to learn all of the anatomy and physiology, musculoskeletal tests, and laws, the majority of learning was just memorization and understanding why things worked the way they do. These beginning classes helped give us the background and knowledge that we needed to progress to the upper level classes. We also had to learn all of the tapings used for injury prevention or support and started applying how and when to use them.
Then as a Junior our learning and understanding was utilized in more applicable ways. This is when instead of just watching, we were involved with athletes. This demanded for us to take what we knew and apply it to various situations. This application would vary in areas of managing injuries, to modalities, to time management between sports. During this stage, we also became aware of things that worked well when applied and perhaps did not work well, and also started to touch on evaluating injuries.
Finally as seniors, we further took the application or our learning and were required to evaluate and create. This helped us sum up everything we learned in four year to be able to function in our job. During the latter stages we needed to evaluate injuries, decide on a course of action, and create a plan in order to get that athlete back to action. In other ways we needed to create certain splints or tape jobs that would benefit the athlete to be able to compete.
Overall, I would say the majority of the learning was understanding and application. Yes we touched on all areas, but a lot of it was learning the information, the theory behind it and using it to your benefit. Even in the later years, a lot of the evaluating and creating could not have been done without the understanding, observation, and seeing what was successful from the first couple years.
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I completely agree with what you say about how everything you learn builds on top of what you previously learned. Even in your last year of undergrad, you were still using a lot of the skills that you learned in your first years. It reminds me of how we talked in class about kids needing to master their times tables by the time they leave elementary school because they need multiplication skills in more advanced levels of math. If kids don't have a good understanding of the basics, how will they be able to fully master any content area?
ReplyDeleteI also support what you wrote about learning being scaffolded and building upon previously learned materials. I actually wrote a similar blog related to the importance of appropriately scaffolding and building upon the complexity of cognitive development.
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