1. Collaboration with peers prepares students for their future, while helping them develop higher-level thinking skills
2. Using multiple levels of Bloom's taxonomy will ensure a task is rich.
3. The higher one "climbs" Bloom's taxonomy's pyramid, the more complex thinking skills are involved.
3.1. “Bloom’s taxonomy classifies levels and forms of learning from the most basic level of recalling facts to the highest levels of evaluating and creating” (Norfleet, 2017, p. 2)
4. Instructional Design Experience
5. Research
6. The design thinking process we use at our school leads students to use a lot of higher-level thinking skills
6.1. Brookflield's process of critical thinking in Rabinowitz (2015, p. 2)
7. Lower-level thinking skills must be at least partially mastered in order for students to work on higher levels of thinking.
7.1. "Higher order test performance was greatest following retrieval practice that matched in cognitive complexity based on Bloom’s taxonomy: fact quizzes enhanced final fact test performance and higher order quizzes enhanced final higher order test performance” (Agarwal, 2019, p. 202).
7.2. Context: to consider the context and history of issues, problems, or situations. (Rabinowitz, 2015, p. 3)
7.3. “When teaching material to students, the higher levels of learning on the hierarchy, which lead to critical thinking, are not utilized until the lower levels are achieved” (Norfleet, 2017, p. 2)
