Bloom's taxonomy to your help

Syllabus with Learning Outcomes

One useful tool (but not the only one) to be used when planning and designing a course syllabus, assessment, and the different levels of content you will present in the lectures is Bloom's taxonomy.

Bloom's revised taxonomy is a easy and simple enough tool to map out the different levels of knowledge and cognition that you intend your students to demonstrate once they go through your course.

Start by collecting the topics you intend to teach, then think about what are the important skills you would like your students to have once they complete successfully your course. Think in terms of student skills, competencies, procedural knowledge as demonstrated by your students once they complete successfully your course.

Often when we write course outcomes we have the tendency to list the course content (the list of topics, or chapters students will learn), or a description of what students will learn in the course or a description of mathods and assessment tools we use. All those are good to know, however Student Learning Outcomes should be thought of and written having in mind students' skills. Think about student doing something not what the course content is or the teacher does in the class.