DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) TRAINING

Recognize what distinguishes Depth of Knowledge and how the DOK Levels mark and measure the cognitive demand of academic standards curricular activities,  assessment items, and generative artificial intelligence (AI) resources.

Understand how Depth of Knowledge (DOK) clarifies and communicates what exactly and how deeply students must understand and use their learning to demonstrate proficiency, develop competency, or perform successfully.

Use the language of Depth of Knowledge to clarify and communicate the complexity of the task students must complete, the demand of mental processing students must perform, and the extent of the response students must provide.

Deconstruct the learning intention andi individual objectives of academic standards, curricular activities, and assessment items to determine the Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Level students must understand and use their learning.

Reconstruct performance objectives into DOK 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.

Understand how teaching and learning for Depth of Knowledge is experienced in different content areas and use the DOK Levels to plan and provide DOK teaching and learning experiences in a specific subject.

Learn how to plan and provide standards based and student supportive DOK teaching and learning experiences in reading, literature and language arts.

Learn how to plan and provide standards based and student supportive DOK teaching and learning experiences in mathematics.

Learn how to plan and provide standards based and student supportive DOK teaching and learning experiences in science and with S.T.E.M.

Learn how to plan and provide standards based and student supportive  DOK teaching and learning experiences in social studies classes and courses.

Learn how to plan and provide standards based and student supportive DOK teaching and learning experiences in world language courses.

Learn how to plan and provide standards based and student supportive DOK teaching and learning experiences in the arts (fine, visual, performing).

Learn how to plan and provide standards based and student supportive DOK teaching and learning experiences in health and physical education classes.

Learn how to plan and provide standards based and student supportive DOK teaching and learning experiences in career and technical education courses.

Learn how to plan and provide standards based and student supportive DOK teaching and learning experiences in the elementary grades (Grade K-6).

Learn how to understand and apply Depth of Knowledge as a concept, framework and language in Advanced Placement (AP) courses.

Learn how to understand and apply Depth of Knowledge as a concept, framework and language in International Baccalaureate (IB) courses.

Use Depth of Knowledge 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 as a concept, framework and language to address and assess the critical questions that drive the actions, choices and decisions of Professional Learning Community (PLCs). 

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.

Phrase and pose good questions that will prompt students to comprehend, communicate, and consider their learning  through inquiry and by questioning at different and deeper DOK Levels.

Use Depth of Knowledge as a language and the DOK Levels as a rating scale to check and confirm how closely curricular activities, assessment items, and AI resources address a specific standard.