Bloom's Taxonomy Vs. The National Standards for Music

When you look at bloom's taxonomy there are different levels of difficulty. The higher you go in bloom's taxonomy the more critical thinking it requires of the students. The students have to do more on their own and figure things out themselves. There is less information being fed to the students by the teacher like in the knowledge stage when you get to the application, analysis, and synthesis stages. This is the same as in the national standards. In the first few standards the teacher is teaching the students how to do things like sing a song and the students learn that way. However the national standards towards the end take more critical thinking because the students have to think about relationships and history. The standards follow bloom's taxonomy by increasing difficulty and the amount of thinking and performing tasks on their own the students must do as they get farther along in their education.