Do you remember when you were in Grade 3 or 4, just drawing and listening to stories?

Bloom’s taxonomy, which sounds like a floral classification, is actually an educational principle about how well you know your subject (i.e. your level of mastery).

For example, if you studied biology at a low level of mastery, that means that you barely remember what the word ‘cell’ means, but if you have a high level of mastery, you’re out there pushing the boundaries of biological knowledge with new discoveries.

It’s evident that you want a higher level of mastery than a lower level-you don’t have to be at the frontiers of human knowledge for your chemistry exam, but you should be at a high level to cope with all those curveball questions.

After five years of investigating factors that influenced my students’ success and failure, I developed the term enablers of learning: factors that sit outside of pure learning skills that have a significant impact on a person’s ability to learn effectively.

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Would you be able to remember these numbers for the next few months if I gave you these numbers? I think you should repeat them a few times today, tomorrow, and at the end of the week—and then in a couple of weeks, then in a month, and hopefully you will remember them by then.