My Bloom's

In my early schooling I experienced a great deal of recall, and application of skills. I attended Career Institute of Technology my junior and senior year of high school. I studied building trades. I learned to apply the use of welding, masonry, carpentry, electrical and plumbing skills. I went on to Penn College for Welding. I studied metallurgical facts and phenomena. I practiced welding skills for hours and hours. In a few courses I applied those skills in a real-world setting.
It wasn't until I attended Penn State my junior and senior year of college that I began analyzing, evaluating and creating ideas. I built my philosophy of education. And developed creative ways of reaching students and assessing their needs. (none of which employed the use of standardized tests)
At Millersville I studied Technology Education. I digressed back to the practice and application of skills. Occasionally I studied industrial concepts and practices. And in a few classes we spent some time analyzing these concepts to create curriculum and lesson plans. There was little reflection or evaluation of technology products or projects. The projects I made were rarely a creation of my own, but, simply a blueprint of an idea that somebody made fyears ago and was a requirement of every Tech. Ed. student that had graced those classrooms for at least 2 decades.
Now my educational journey has brought me to East Stroudsburg University where I have created pictures, images, brochures and documents that are unique and professional-looking. I have analyzed data and evaluated practices and policies in education. I have engaged in creative discussion and heard new ideas from practicing educators and future educators.
I think my experiences were largely memorizing facts and practicing skills because of the paths I chose. I entered trade fields and they requiring a lot of those types of thinking. However, I was sprised that in a field like technology education there wasn't more designing, analyzing, evaluating and creating going on. Many of my classes at Millersville were very shop oriented and not so technology oriented. We should have been anylizing and evaluating current technology. And we should have been creating new technology.