By Meg Secatore
T he takeaway: It’s as important to the conference experience as are inspiring speakers, the chance to
build your professional network and, of
course, freebies and prizes.
For Michael Milton, a Burlington
High School psychology and world
history teacher, “the takeaway” from
the recent MTA Just for New Teachers
Conference — the idea he knew
he could use right away in his own
“In our presentation we
included an activity called ‘Question
Generation’ based on Bloom’s
Taxonomy,” said Laura Vago, a
middle-school science teacher in
Malden. “It involves a poster of a
figurative ‘mountain’ split into six
levels, each corresponding to one level
of Bloom’s Taxonomy” — that is,
remembering, understanding, applying,
analyzing, evaluating and creating.
