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Grade 2 has changed up the routine to spanning the word sorts to 2 weeks we have seen the students go deeper into the meaning of the words as well as applying the patterns in their writing more. We have also changed our routine to a Bingo Card and the kids are loving it!

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Many educators work hard to expand their students' knowledge and get them to think in various ways every day. Short of increasing homework assignments and forcing longer school hours, how can educators increase rigor in their students? Teachers often turn to educational models to develop their lessons, classroom activities, and teaching tools to get their students working at a deeper level of understanding.
Level 3: Strategic Thinking
Norman Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK) framework is a highly regarded model that has been proven to be useful in understanding what type of knowledge is required to solve problems in academia. Webb has outlined different levels of content complexity and understanding. Let's take a look at an example, the DOK summary definitions for mathematics, which follow:
Level 4: Extended Thinking
Level 1: Recall

This level is the basic recall of information, such as a fact, definition, term, or a procedure. Typically, this is as simple as remembering a formula or following a recipe.

Level 2: Skills and Concepts

The second level requires a student to make informed decisions about problem-solving and procedures. In this level, students are asked to complete multiple steps in order to find a solution, like collecting and then displaying data in a chart.

This level requires reasoning, planning, using evidence, and a higher level of thinking. Asking students to explain their thinking is a part of this level. This level is more complex and abstract than the previous two.

The last level of the of the four is the most complex. This level requires complex reasoning, planning, developing, and thinking most likely over a period of time. A student both designing and conducting an experiment is a demonstration of this level.

Interested in learning how Edmentum incorporates Webb's DOK framework into our programs? Check out our technology-enhanced 21st century item types!

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Webb's Depth of Knowledge Framework: The Basics

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Norman Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK) framework is a highly regarded model that has been proven to be useful in understanding what type of knowledge is required to solve problems in academia. Webb has outlined different levels of content complexity and understanding.

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How are our activities getting our kids to mastery?

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How are our activities getting our kids to mastery?

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SOLO TAXONOMY

As learning progresses it becomes more complex. SOLO, which stands for the Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome, is a means of classifying learning outcomes in terms of their complexity, enabling us to assess students' work in terms of its quality not of how many bits of this and of that they have got right. At first we pick up only one or few aspects of the task ( unistructural), then several aspects but they are unrelated ( multistructural), then we learn how to integrate them into a whole ( relational), and finally, we are able to generalised that whole to as yet untaught applications ( extended abstract). The diagram lists verbs typical of each such level.

SOLO can be used not only in assessment, but in designing the curriculum in terms of the level of learning outcomes intended, which is helpful in implementing constructive alignment. SOLO can also explain why those who use low complexity arguments in political or marital disputes usually win - in the short term. But in politics that's all you need, as is illustrated in the 2019 Australian election: Party A, a well worked out social democrat package of benefit to most Australians; Party B, "cut taxes", strongly to the advantage of the rich, and call the leader of Party A a liar "he lies all the time". And yes, Party B won.

SOLO was first described by Kevin Collis and myself in Evaluating the Quality of Learning: The SOLO Taxonomy (New York: Academic Press, 1982, now out of print, but available in Chinese).

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SOLO TAXONOMY As learning progresses it becomes more complex. SOLO, which stands for the Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome, is a means of classifying learning outcomes in terms of their complexity, enabling us to assess students' work in terms of its quality not of how many bits of this and of that they have got right.

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What is your pattern?
What do you hear?
What do you see?
Show me.
Why?

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What are some questions you ask your students to deepen their understanding of the their patterns?

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I am so looking forward to reading the entries on this 'Wonder Wall'
Trish

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What are the most successful learning activities for Word Work in your grade level?
-Jess

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Grade 1 is asking students, "What learning activities for Word Work help you learn the best?" We will let you know the results and how we take action.
-Grade 1