Revising Learning Targets for Depth, Student Ownership, and Variety

Revising Learning Targets for... 

Depth

Student Ownership 

 Variety

We will be looking this week at how we prepare students for deeper thinking through the use of Learning Targets.  You may be familiar with Blooms Taxonomy of Questions and the Rigor and Relevance matrix to get to depth.   Depth of Knowledge is the framework used by our Badger/ Smarter Balanced Exam.    

Our TLA leaders, Julie Zamzow, Michele Delong, and Lori Head will be sharing how to use Depth of Knowledge (DOK) to shift learning targets to be more rigorous.  Click here for our presentation.  

Your homework for our next staff meeting.
1.  Please bring 1 learning target from any subject to analyze at the staff meeting. 

2.  Please comment on the blog with questions or difficulties you have using learning targets in your classroom.

Immerse/ Frontload
Click here to learn more about DOK:  Learn about DOK

Here are the 4 levels of Depth of Knowledge.

Level 1: Recall and Reproduction

Tasks at this level require recall of facts or rote application of simple procedures. The task does not require any cognitive effort beyond remembering the right response or formula. Copying, computing, defining, and recognizing are typical Level 1 tasks.

Level 2: Skills and Concepts

At this level, a student must make some decisions about his or her approach. Tasks with more than one mental step such as comparing, organizing, summarizing, predicting, and estimating are usually Level 2.

Level 3: Strategic Thinking

At this level of complexity, students must use planning and evidence, and thinking is more abstract. A task with multiple valid responses where students must justify their choices would be Level 3. Examples include solving non-routine problems, designing an experiment, or analyzing characteristics of a genre.

Level 4: Extended Thinking

Level 4 tasks require the most complex cognitive effort. Students synthesize information from multiple sources, often over an extended period of time, or transfer knowledge from one domain to solve problems in another. Designing a survey and interpreting the results, analyzing multiple texts by to extract themes, or writing an original myth in an ancient style would all be examples of Level 4.

Investigate/ Coalesce- Tuesday's Staff Meeting
Information from TLA members at staff meeting.  Click here for our presentation.
DOK Wheel
DOK Question Stems

Go Public
Reflect on your learning targets.   What level in DOK do they fall?
How can you move to the next level with some small shifts.
Rubric to analyze questions or assessment tasks.