DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) TRAINING

We provide professional learning on how  Depth of Knowledge (DOK) serves as a concept, framework, language, and process for instruction, learning and assessment.

We provide coaching, guidance, and support to educators on how to plan and provide DOK teaching and learning experiences that are standards driven and student supportive.

We provide guidance, support, and training on how to use the DOK Levels as a multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) for addressing, advancing, and assessing student learning.

We offer guidance, support, and training on how to establish Depth of Knowledge (DOK) as a comprehensive and continuous focus and goal for elevating student learning, enhancing teacher effectiveness, and ensuring successful school performance.

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We offer a comprehensive model to equip and empower instructional leaders to implement, lead, and sustain for Depth of Knowledge as an organizational focus and priority for instruction, learning, and assessment.

We offer guidance, support, and training on to use Depth of Knowledge and the DOK Levels to check and confirm how closely activities, assessments, and AI resources address and assess the learning expectations of grade level and subject-specific standards.

Understand how Depth of Knowledge (DOK) clarifies what exactly and confirms how deeply students must comprehend and communicate their learning.

Use Depth of Knowledge and the DOK Levels to establish and evaluate the cognitive demand of academic standards, activities, and assessments.

Use the language of DOK to specify what exactly and how deeply students must comprehend and communicate their learning to perform successfully.

Deconstruct the learning expectations and  objectives of academic standards to determine the depth and extent students must demonstrate and discuss their learning.

Reconstruct learning targets that specify the demand of the mental processing (DOK Skill) students must perform and the extent of the response (DOK Response) students must provide.

Use Depth of Knowledge to establish, evaluate, and elevate the complexity and demand of student learning expectations and experiences in a certain content area or specific subject.

Use Depth of Knowledge and the DOK Levels to unwrap, deconstruct, dissect, and unwrap the learning expectations and individual objectives of academic standards into Pivotal Points of Proficiency and learning progressions.

Use Depth of Knowledge (DOK) to determine which standards are essential to learn, important to understand, or “nice to know” and the DOK Levels to map curriculum, instruction, learning, and assessment.

Use Depth of Knowledge (DOK) to establish a learner-centered culture that differentiates, individualizes, and personalizes learning based on the demand of the standards and the diverse needs of the students,

Use Depth of Knowledge and the DOK Levels to address and assess the critical questions that drive the instructional decisions and learning expectations of a Professional Learning Community (PLC).

Use the DOK Levels as a multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) for delivering instruction, responding to intervention (RTI), extending or enriching learning, and addressing and assessing learning loss.

Use Depth of Knowledge and the DOK Levels to develop learning progressions that tier teaching and learning based on the demand of the standards and the strengths of the students.

Phrase and pose good questions that will engage and encourage students to demonstrate and discuss the depth and extent of their learning at different and deeper DOK Levels.

Use Depth of Knowledge and the DOK Levels to plan and provide project-based learning (PBL) experiences that engage and encourage students to understand and use their learning at different and deeper DOK Levels.

Use Depth of Knowledge and the DOK Levels as a rating scale to check and confirm how closely activities, assessments, and AI resources address grade level and subject specific standards.

Use Depth of Knowledge (DOK) to strengthen and support the development and demonstration of students' literacy and language comprehension and communication skills.

Use Depth of Knowledge and the DOK levels to address, advance and align the cognitive demand of mathematical standards, activities, and assessment items with the Standards of Mathematical Practice.

Use Depth of Knowledge and the DOK levels to determine and distinguish the cognitive demand of the science and engineering practices and disciplinary core ideas addressed and assessed by science standards.

Learn how to plan and provide DOK teaching and learning experiences that address, assess, and align with the challenging and complex learning expectations of Advanced Placement (AP) courses.

 Learn how to plan and provide DOK teaching and learning experiences that address, assess, and align with the challenging and complex learning expectations of International Baccalaureate (IB) courses.

 Learn how to plan and provide DOK teaching and learning experiences that strengthen and support the instructional practices and learning skills enhanced by the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) framework.  

Learn how Depth of Knowledge clarifies the cognitive demand of goals and expectations set by IEP goals and how to align the the Extended DOK (EDOK) Levels with the four core DOK Levels to provide instruction, interventions and accommodations.

Learn how Depth of Knowledge clarifies the cognitive demand of goals and expectations of language objectives and how to align the the Extended DOK (EDOK) Levels with the four core DOK Levels to strengthen and support language development.

Learn how Depth of Knowledge clarifies the cognitive demand of goals and expectations of advanced and enrichment experiences and how to align the the Gifted DOK (GDOK) Levels with the four core DOK Levels to advance or enrich student learning.