Doi. That's Romanian for Two.

Alrighty, so I'm not normally one to become completely overwhelmed by things, in fact, I normally handle things quite nicely, but having been presented with Bloom's Taxonomy and INTASC principles again, I have the feeling that sometimes I might not be doing all of them at once. In my perfectionist mind, that just doesn't compute! But then I realized, it's all good, I already know what I need to do...

You see, sometimes, the things that we inherently do as good teachers (assuming that we all are) are the things that other teachers struggle with. For example: In our program we have been taught to pay particular attention to the way that people learn and how to best reach them. Now, anytime that anyone in the department says, "Oh, that's such a Blue thing to do." We all simply know that it means they're just being caring or worrying or thinking about others. We now inherently use our baseline knowledge as a way to interact with the world.

In our teaching it should be no different.

We are simply teaching our students the baseline knowledge that they need to be able to interact with the world. The INTASC standards call it Learning Styles/Diversity, we just call it paying attention to student needs. Isn't it funny that we have to be reminded of what we do?

In the future, I fully plan to use Bloom's Taxonomy and the INTASC principles-- not because I will have them both out constantly looking at and reviewing them, but because they are something that we simply do, because they're part of how we were taught to teach, they're just good pedagogy.