Published: by Kent Marcoux |
permalink Memorization
Educator programs have long stressed the importance of Bloom's taxonomy, where students move from lower to higher levels of learning through the stages of knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Schools often promote themselves as valuable in helping students at the higher levels, and may short change the necessary level of knowledge in their eagerness to be seen as teaching synthesis or evaluation. A solid factual understanding of the world is necessary for kids to be able to move on to comprehension or application. Memorization can be a part of acquiring this base. Start with quotes (nursery rhymes, famous sayings or quotations, poem fragments), lists (U.S. presidents, countries or states and capitals, parts of speech), or visuals like maps or charts.
