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The Head Won’t Go Where the Heart Hasn’t Been

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Learning is about how we feel, think, value, and believe things. The affective domain affects how students approach, interact with, and remember information, so it's important to include it in learning. Emotions are important for motivating someone.


Positive emotions like curiosity, enthusiasm, and excitement can make learners more willing to interact with the content, persevere through problems, and try to master it. Negative emotions, such as those that might make learning hard, can hinder cognitive skills during the learning process. Also, the psychomotor domain, when integrated into the daily routines of activities, can boost to set up skills, such as when teaching phonological awareness, students are asked to clap to find the number of syllables in a word and the position within that word.


Also, learners who feel emotionally involved are more likely to be involved in their learning experience. Students are more likely to participate, ask questions, and explore concepts when they feel connected to the subject matter. By integrating the three domains in Bloom's taxonomy, teachers can create more engaging, significant learning environments for their students and make the learning experience a lasting one.


Reference

Baker, D. (2007). Novel Ideas Using Bloom's Taxonomy. On The Mark Press.


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