As I was checking in on Alice Keeler's recent posts, I found this one. This post pulls in thoughts and ideas from multiple areas that we have talked about this year in PD. She talks about using DOK, GAFE and assessment writing. I will caution you that the article focuses more on ELA, but the main ideas and use apply to all content areas.
I think now is a good time for us to look at something like this. We are getting to the end of the year when you will be writing and analyzing summative assessments.
Questions to Consider
1. While writing assessments, are you still analyzing questions and DOK levels? That is a great tool in your tool box. Doing this equates directly to test prep, little by little.
2. Alice Keeler presents one keyboard shortcut in the article. Have you ever googled all the keyboard shortcuts for a Chromebook? How interesting would it be if you could point out shortcuts to your students that they were unaware of?
3. A section of the article deals with commenting and having a conversation with "yourself." I know that some of our staff uses this feature in Docs. Could more use it? How could you give it a try?
I can always stand to be reminded of DOK levels. My go-to word this past year or so to increase depth of knowledge has been the verb "compare". In a lot of situations, especially in the world of science vocab, it is easy to "contrast" - tell the difference between two people's conclusions or two vocab words, but it seems to take a deeper level of thought to compare and find good similarities, pushing the DOK level up a level or two.
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