D.O.K. = depth and extent of knowledge and thinking
DOK in Four Content Areas Concise, easy to use, one chart for each content area! Your go-to resource. You can download them at the bottom of the page. Created by Sean Junkins, following the Webb model.
Tammy Seneca's Presentation on DOK The Ed Tech Supervisor for West Baton Rouge Schools, Tammy gives more in depth information and good tips, for example, "If there is only one correct answer, it is probably level DOK 1 or DOK 2 ."
Webb's DOK question stems (.pdf)
What Exactly is Depth of Knowledge?
"Are they expected to acquire knowledge (DOK-1)? Apply knowledge (DOK-2)? Analyze knowledge (DOK-3)? Augment knowledge (DOK-4)?"
Watch the video, then go to the website and download the routines you are interested in...as the video says, pick one to start with, have students learn it well, then branch out. Focus: Critical Thinking, and evaluating your thinking
Visible Thinking Routines (start here, some you may already use!)
Core Routines (You can download as .pdf)
Other routines (and I find the "maps" very useful):
"Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction. The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically."—Martin Luther King Jr.
In the Heat of Learning, Good Questioning is the Key
Finding the Funk: 3 Ways to Add Culturally Responsive Critical Thinking to your Lessons
Facing History’s Teaching Strategies...upper grade ideas and strategies that can apply to any subject
Inquiry Learning - Developing Student-Driven Questions
DOK Wheel (Really a Critical Thinking Chart)- This chart is really a Higher Order Thinking Chart, rather than a Depth of Knowledge chart (a .pdf) - so...don't use it for DOK... I received it in my district and it's all over the internet, but it's not correct. See above for DOK resources.
To Boost Higher Level Thinking, Try Curation! (podcast and article)
14 Brilliant Bloom’s Taxonomy Posters for Teachers
21 Critical Thinking Tools Some digital/tech resources aligned with Bloom
Bloom’s Taxonomy & Question Stems (a .pdf)