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Depth of Knowledge (DOK) is a different and deeper way to look at the complexity and demand of the goals and expectations set by academic standards, curricular activities, assessment items, and generative artificial intelligence (AI) resources.
Depth of Knowledge clarifies and considers the conditions and criteria - or context - in which students must understand and use their knowledge and thinking. That's described and detailed by the all words and phrases that follow the initial cognitive action verb that introduces an objective that indicates the type of thinking students must demonstrate. Those words and phrase identify and inform the following:
These are the two overarching essential questions that must be asked and addressed to check and confirm the DOK Level of an academic standard, curricular activity, assessment item, or AI resource.
The DOK Levels describe four different ways students could understand and use their knowledge and thinking - or learning. The DOK Levels as a framework can serve as the following:
The DOK Levels do not function as a taxonomy. Each DOK level explains an explicit way - or context - in which academic standards, curricular activities, assessment items, and AI Resources could demand students to understand and use their learning. Each also have specific goals and expectations students must achieve to demonstrate proficiency, develop competency, and perform successfully.
The DOK Levels establish the ceiling of assessment - the deepest level an assessment item should demand students to understand and use their learning. That's set by the DOK Level of the specific standard being addressed and assessed.
The DOK Levels also inform the range of DOK Levels in which students could and should be evaluated equitably and fairly on standardized assessments.
The goal of the Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Training provided by MAVERIK EDUCATION is to understand and use DOK as a concept and framework for the following:
The expectation of the Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Training provided by MAVERIK EDUCATION is academic leaders and classroom teachers to understand and use the language of Depth of Knowledge to do the following:
The Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Training provided by MAVERIK EDUCATION is based on the book Deconstructing Depth of Knowledge: A Method and Model for Deeper Teaching and Learning written by Erik M. Francis and published by Solution Tree. It also incorporates Dr. Norman Webb's work with alignment studies and Dr. Karin Hess's concept of cognitive rigor.
Specific references, research and resources include the following:
The Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Training provided by MAVERIK EDUCATION is designed and differentiated to address the goals and needs of specific staff and stakeholders in education. We can provide training to academic leaders and classroom teachers in all subjects at all grade levels. Click this link to review the specific services and support we provide on DOK.
We also specialize in providing a train-the-trainer models for academic leaders and classroom teachers to lead the implementation of Depth of Knowledge as a districtwide and / or schoolwide comprehensive schoolwide reform model.
The takeaways from the Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Training by Maverik Education will be that participants will learn a different and deeper way to determine the cognitive complexity and demand of academic standards, curricular activities, and test items.
Participants will also learn what distinguishes teaching and testing for Depth of Knowledge from teaching and learning for Depth of Knowledge.
Participants will also learn how to plan and provide teaching and learning experiences that address and assess student learning over a range of DOK levels leading to, through, and beyond the goals and expectations set by grade level academic standards and learning targets.
The Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Training provided by Maverik Education is standards-based in that it focuses on how to plan and provide teaching and learning experiences that address, assess, and extent beyond the grade level goals and expectations of academic standards.
Participants will learn how to deconstruct the learning intention of their own grade level and content area academic standards to determine their DOK level.
Participants will also learn how to reconstruct learning objectives into DOK Learning Targets that specify the mental processing - or DOK Skill - students must perform.
Participants will also also learn how to establish DOK Success Criteria that specify the extent of the response students must provide to curricular activities and test items.
The core idea of Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Training provided by Maverik Education is that all students will be expected and encouraged to achieve and surpass grade level goals and expectations. Participants will learn how the delivery and intensity of instruction depends on the demand of the standards and the strengths of the students collectively and individually. They will learn how the DOK levels can be used as a multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) to deliver instruction, respond to intervention, and extend or enrich student learning.
The Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Training provided by Maverik Education will show how teaching and testing for Depth of Knowledge starts and stops with the standards but teaching and learning for Depth and Learning begins at the DOK level where students are and builds upon their strengths to rise to, reach, and go beyond the DOK level - or DOK Bar - set by the standards. This makes DOK a strengths-finder method and model that differentiates, individualizes, and personalizes teaching and learning.
The resources provided with the Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Training provided by Maverik Education will include a compliemtary e-copy of the DOK Training Workbook that can be downloaded, shared, and completed in Google Docs. They will also be provided with the DOK Grid, a database in Google Sheets that features lists of descriptors and objectives for teaching and learning at each DOK level. Participants will also receive complimentary PDF copies of the slides shown in the DOK Training that can be used as resources and tools or turned into posters.
The Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Training provided by Maverik Education can be provided in-person onsite and virtually online. We also provide training as half-day, full-day, and multi-day seminars or workshops. We also provide follow-up coaching and support to schools and staff to ensure the ideas and strategies addressed in the seminar or workshop are being implemented effectively and with fidelity.
YES! Maverik Education provides train-the-trainer training to districtwide and site-based cadres looking to lead a schoolwide initiative focusing on Depth of Knowledge (DOK). Our support and training consists of a series of onsite workshops and virtual sessions in which we work with a cadre of school leaders and staff members on how to implement and lead a schoolwide initiative focusing on teaching and learning for Depth of Knowledge (DOK). Our goal is to ensure the implementation of DOK is sustainable as a comprehensive school reform method and model.
NO! The DOK Wheel does not depict Depth of Knowledge accurately as an academic concept and framework. In fact, Dr. Norman Webb, the creator of Depth of Knowledge, explains how the DOK Wheel is inaccurate in this 2023 article from Edutopia (click the link to access). The introduction of the DOK Training will examine and explain with evidence why the DOK Wheel is inaccurate and should be discarded. Please watch our video on why the DOK Wheel is inaccurate.
Costs for the Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Training provided by Maverik Education are fair, reasonable, and negotiable to ensure the district, school, or organization receives the quality services and support they need. Pricing includes costs for travel and lodging as well as access to the supplementary training materials. Fees can be paid from supplemental federal funding sources (e.g., Title I, Title II, Title III, or Title IV of the Every Students Succeeds Act of 2016, ESSR funding that address learning loss). Contact us to discuss costs for services and support.
Inquiring Minds Want to Learn:
Posing Good Questions
to Promote Student Inquiry
by
Erik M. Francis
Published by Solution Tree