Friday, May 15, 2009

Taxonomy

So I have noticed that on the youtube searches it was difficult to find taxonomys other than Bloom's and the cognitive domain. I was not really overly surprised because I think most people assume the cognitive domain is the most important, especial in an academic setting.

I am kind of disappointed that so much emphasis is placed on the cognitive domain because I think that is the most obvious. I think that in health the affective and physical education the psychomotor, obviously, and affective have such a great opportunity to be developed!
I think the affective domain is so important, because in my personal experiences as a substitute teacher students were really lacking empathy and feelings towards their fellow classmates. The students would make unnecessary rude and hurtful comments as well as refuse to work together. This was really hard for me, because I felt I had no control as a substitute to bulid the affective domain and my familiarity with the students was so minimal it really decreased their reseptiveness towards me.
The psychomotor domain is really lacking developement, as in many students in middle and high school I witnessed a serious segregation of psychomotorlly developed students and students lacking physical skills. The students who were able would continue to just be good, participate, and enjoy physical activity. The students who were lacking skills would either sit out, or walk the track opposed to participating and developing their skills. It was really unforunitate and sad, and I think this is something health and physical educators need to address.
I feel that physical activity has such a great opportunity to help students utilize the affective and psychomotor domain as many physical development skills could encorporate team work, and companionship.
All three domains and definately important to develope and incorporate into goals and objecetives, I just think more emphasis should be placed on affective and psychomotor than what currently is.

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