Summary of James M. Lang's Small Teaching / IRB Media (ePub)

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#1 The media storm that erupted in 1956 upon the publication of a book titled Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals, Handbook I: Cognitive Domain, was largely the result of a misused pyramid visual image. Today's college instructors often believe that the learning of facts and concepts comes beneath them, while higher cognitive activities like critical thinking and judgment are their primary concerns.

#2 We can't offload the responsibility for teaching our students basic knowledge to their elementary school teachers or to Google. We must develop a rich body of knowledge in our content areas, and this will help students engage in cognitive activities like thinking and evaluating and creating.

#3 We can't offload the responsibility for teaching our students basic knowledge to their elementary school teachers or to Google. We must develop a rich body of knowledge in our content areas, and this will help our students engage in cognitive activities like thinking and evaluating.

#4 If you want your students to have knowledge that they can use to practice their higher order cognitive skills, you must help them acquire that knowledge. Simple tweaks to the organization of your course and the order in which you introduce new material and review older material can provide a powerful boost to student mastery of knowledge.