This professional development plan outlines goals and actions to improve teacher understanding and implementation of Depth of Knowledge (DOK) levels in lesson planning, instruction, and assessment. The plan includes: 1) Training teachers on DOK levels and assessment; 2) Having teacher teams decompose standards to identify DOK levels; 3) Having teachers match identified DOK levels to standards when assessing orally, formatively, and summatively. 4) Observing teachers during instruction to show improvement across observations. 5) Having teacher teams analyze formative and summative assessments for DOK alignment to standards. 6) Revising assessments based on teacher examination and analysis of data to improve assessments and teacher confidence.

1. Professional Development Summary Action Plan
School_______________________________
2014-2015
Items in GREEN are ongoing or complete. Items in YELLOW are in progress.
Items in RED are not yet begun.
Target
Action
Organized/
Time
Resources
Success
Monitoring
Impact
Future
/Goal
Offered by
Frame
/Costs
Measure(s)
Action
EXAMPLE 1. Training
System Level June 2014
Time
Formative/
Session
Staff
Train new
TTW:
will be offered Curriculum
summative
evaluation.
understands hires
assess
in DOK to all
Specialist
teacher
DOK and is
based on
teachers
assessment.
able to apply
DOK of
it when
standard
planning
being
lessons.
taught.
2. Teacher
teams will
decompose
standards to
identify DOK.
Academic
Coach
August –
September
2014
Time
$100 for
notebooks
Teacher
lesson plans
reveal
knowledge
of DOK.
Academic
Coach or
Administrator
will review
lesson plans
Student
growth
percentiles
will reveal
positive
trends.
Provide all
staff with
decomposed
standards.
3. Teachers
will match
identified
DOK to
standard(s)
when
assessing
* orally
* formative
* summative
Academic
Coach
August
2014 to
May 2015
Time
Teacher
observation
Academic
Coach or
Admin. will
observe
instruction &
review
teacher
created
assessments
for rigor and
appropriate
DOK level.
Students
will be
expected to
solve
problems
using
knowledge
in a variety
of settings
and at a
variety of
DOK levels.
Gradually
move to
higher DOK
levels
during all
phases of
instruction
and
assessment.
Review of
formative/
summative
assessments
by admin. or
Acad. Coach

2. Professional Development Summary Action Plan
School_______________________________
2014-2015
4. Teachers
will be
observed
during
instruction.
Academic
August
Coach and
2014 to
Administrator May 2015
Time
Teachers
will show
improvement
across
multiple
observations.
Teacher
observation
using eWalk
rubric based
on best
practices.
Teachers
will question
at higher
DOK levels
with
automaticity.
5. Teacher
teams will
analyze
formative and
summative
assessments
for DOK
alignment to
standards
being
assessed.
Academic
Coach
November
2014 and
April 2015
Time
Formative/
summative,
SLOs,
benchmark
assessments
will reveal
variety of
DOK levels
and
assessment
types.
Assessments
used will
become
more and
more valid;
student
performance
at higher
DOK levels
will
improve.
6.Assessments
will be revised
based on
teacher
examination
and analysis of
data.
System Level
Curriculum
Specialist
May 2015
Time
System level
expert(s) will
work with
teacher teams
to ensure that
DOK levels
within
assessments
are properly
aligned to the
DOK level in
the matching
standard(s).
Teacher
teams will
review
revisions for
DOK and
variety of
question
types.
$1200.00
for subs
Formative,
summative,
SLOs,
benchmark
assessments
will improve
based on
revisions.
Teachers
will have an
increased
level of
confidence
in the
assessments.
Examine
TKES
walkthrough
and
observation
data to
determine a
correlation.
This process
will need to
be revisited
as teachers
become
more
proficient.
All teachers
will be
provided
with
updated
copies of
assessments.