It Is Critical To 'Maslow' Before Students Can 'Bloom'
First, a little background on Maslow and Bloom. Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist. His hierarchy of needs framework is a popular theory of motivation. In this theory, Maslow states that our actions are motivated by our physiological needs. Most often this is represented by a pyramid, with the most basic needs at the bottom and the more complex needs at the top, as pictured below. Benjamin Bloom also developed a theory around how children learn, called Bloom's taxonomy. This...