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A valuable bit of information for all teachers to know is Bloom’s Taxonomy.  Bloom’s Taxonomy is the breakdown or categorization of ordered thinking skills and learning objectives.  This taxonomy of learning can be broken down into three main domains; Cognitive or thinking, Affective Domain in which deals with the emotions of people and lastly the Psychomotor Domain which concentrates on the physical abilities of students. Associated with each domain are valuable verbs to be used when looking deeper into a student’s knowledge and goals.  Teachers will use these verbs when formulating lesson plans and evaluating a student’s performance.  For example the Cognitive Domain uses verbs like recall, apply, asses, develop and etc.  Teachers will look to see if students can recall knowledge from a given assignment and be able to use or apply that same knowledge in other areas of the classroom. Bloom’s Taxonomy is important for teachers to refer to when educating the young minds of today.