How to get your students to truly blossom

 Sometimes the best way to get results from your students is to tell them what you expect from them. These statements break down the aims of tasks and assignments to specific understandable sentences called learning outcomes. Learning outcomes also convey to students what they will learn and what skills they will gain. They are often identified with statements like:

- It is expected that as a result of work in this topic, students will.....
- It is expected that on completion of this task students will have....
- On completion of this assignment students will be able to.....

A tool to help teachers construct outcomes is Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, which has now been revised. The taxonomy has 6 main conceptual levels, aims and attached to each are types of learning that the student will undergo.

I know from being a student that if I know from the get go what the lecturer wants from, I find a pay a lot more attention as I never know when those skills or outcomes will be explained.

To end off a nifty little acronym to help you remember the levels of thinking.......

                               U - R - E - A - C - A!!!!!

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not quite Archimedes, but still effective :D