This professional development focuses on developing rigorous DOK levelled questions in classroom lessons, in alignment with the summative assessment expectations.  This professional development provides: 

1. Standard Recommended Range For DOK Levels In Summative Assessments (Slide 6)

2. DOK Teacher Toolkit (Slide 8) 

   • DOK Levelled Question Stems

   • Subject-Specific DOK Levels

   • Subject-Specific DOK Examples

   • DOK Product Examples

3. The Guided Workshop of A Lesson (Slides 23-28):

   • An examination of current DOK levels in a lesson of your choice

   • Comparison to the Standard Recommended Range for DOK Levels in Summative Assessments

   • Time allotted to workshop the lesson's DOK rigor levels

4. Scaffolding Ideas To Help Struggling Students With DOK 3/4 Question (Slide 30)

5. How To Guide For Creating High Level DOK For Multiple Choice Questions (Slide 31)

6. Guidance about the AI Tools available to teachers to help create rigorous DOK questions

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   • ChatGPT (Slide 25)

   • Magic School (Slides 32-33)

   • Diffit (Slides 34-35)

Here are the resources if you would like to check out the DOK Lab, focusing on appropriately levelled DOK Questions in alignment with the Summative Assessment.  

1. DOK Rigor Lab Google Slides (Links to all resources can be found in the notes section of each slide)

2. DOK Rigor Lab Padlet

Created By: Jess Haun

PD Credit Hours: 1 Hour

This professional development focuses on redesigning an existing classroom activity into a 3-step Engagement Ladder that moves from low-risk entry to scaffolded skill building to authentic application. 

This professional development provides: 

1. Engagement Ladder examples for multiple content areas. (Slides 5-10)

2. A Reflection/Whiparound (Slide 14):

   • Real Teacher Reflections

3. Next Steps (Slide 15)

   • Redesign and Try it in Class

   • Tell Us About It

Here are the resources if you would like to check out the Engagement Ladder.

1. Engagement Ladder Google Slides (Links to all resources can be found in the notes section of each slide)

2. Engagement Ladder Padlet

Created By: Bo Binas

PD Credit Hours: 1 Hour

Needing help getting started with High-Yield Engagement Strategies in the classroom? This professional development focuses on the following engagement strategies, with concrete exemplars and templates to help you get started in your instruction & curriculum design: 

1. Active Learning Strategies (Slides 8-26)

   • Think Pair Share

   • Jigsaw Activities

   • Collaborative Problem Solving 

   • Table Stations/Rotations

   • Gallery Walks

2. Relevance & Real-World Connections (Slides 27-46) 

   • Project Based Learning (PBL’s)

   • TED Talks

   • Virtual Field Trips

3. Student Choice & Voice (Slides 47-61)

1. • Choice Boards

Here are the resources if you would like to check out the Gallery Walk Professional Development focusing on high-yield engagement strategies for teachers to prepare for the upcoming October PD.  

1. Gallery Walk Google Slide Deck (Links to all resources can be found in the notes section of each slide)

2. Gallery Walk Padlet

Created By: Jess Haun

PD Credit Hours: 1 Hour

Needing help getting started with Backward Design, Part 2? This PD offers direction and time to use the learning goals/objectives, CA Content Standard(s), and your SMART goal you set in our Backward Design, Part 1 PD to create a summative assessment for the unit you chose to focus on.  

Backward Design Planning Worksheet

Backward Design Google Slides Presentation

Created By: Jess Haun

PD Credit Hours: 1 Hour

Needing help getting started with Backward Design, Part 1? This PD offers direction and time to select your unit, align it to learning goals/objectives, align it to CA Content Standard(s), write a SMART goal for student learning, and parcel out what content, skills, and big ideas students need to take away from the unit. 

Backward Design Planning Worksheet

Backward Design Google Slides Presentation

Created By: Jess Haun

PD Credit Hours: 1 Hour

Needing help getting started with Engageli Tables?  Check out our Peer Consolidated Learning Using Engageli Tables, Part II.  We review the 4 steps to creating effective tables: 1) Chunking Learning & Setting Norms, 2) Strategic Mixed-Ability Groups, 3) High-Level Questions, and 4) Variety of Activities.  We focus on setting up Engageli Norms, Table Group Roles, and how to use Poll Tags & Quick Polls to split learners into groups by common or diverse answers.  This recording also includes a crash course on Engageli Tables, how to create randomized tables, lock tables, create google documents, make student editors or create a forced copy, and how to upload google documents into Engageli. 

Created By: Jess Haun

PD Credit Hours: 1 Hour

Needing help getting started with Engageli Tables?  Check out our Peer Consolidated Learning Using Tables, Part I, which covers the 4 steps to creating effective tables prior to implementations: 1) Chunking Learning & Setting Norms, 2) Strategic Mixed-Ability Groups, 3) High-Level Questions, and 4) Variety of Activities.  See how you can use Magic School and Diffit to help you create these group activities. 

Created By: Jess Haun

PD Credit Hours: 1 Hour

Are you short on time and need some help coming up with high-level DOK questions and increasing your CFU's (Checks For Understanding) relevant to content? Check out our High-Level DOK Questions Professional Development, which offers sentence frames to help you create your own DOK questions.  We also discuss how to use Magic School & Diffit to help you create high-level DOK questions for the classroom. 

Created By: Rachel Harrison and Jess Haun

PD Credit Hours: 1 Hour

SY2022-23 Fall In-Person PD