Bloom's Taxonomy and 9 National Standards

Bloom' Taxonomy deals with higher level of think in the elements of remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating.  These skills are like steps on a ladder. You have to remember before you can understand, understand before you can apply, and so on. These skills build on each other just as the 9 National Standards for music education build on each other. They are levels of learning music. You have to learn how to read music before you are able to play it and evaluate it. You have to be able to sing along before you can sing with others. You have to learn variations, accompaniments, and keys before you can compose. So, as you can see, both of these elements start with something small and build to something big in order to help students learn and grow. These two elements are very similar, but hard to distinguish a difference. Bloom's Taxonomy deals with intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, you have to want to remember and understand in order to grow. These skills relate to every aspect of daily life, whereas the 9 Musical Standards only relate to Music.