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Standard 7 : Cognitive Rigor/ DOK (Depth of Knowledge) Provides students with meaningful opportunities to engage in higher level thinking to solve applied problems using academic skills such as analyzing, synthesizing, and decision making

CSD Academic Framework Connections

Standards for Instruction • Instruction includes opportunities for students to engage in cognitive rigor (higher level thinking)

Evidence-Based Instructional Priorities: Academic • Planning, instructing, and assessing techniques are implemented to increase student engagement and learning • Uses explicit instruction (I, We, Y’all, You) • Leads students through the instructional hierarchy: Acquisition, Automaticity, and Application (AAA) • Provides opportunities for structured classroom discussions

Corresponding State Indicators

3f. Encourages students to use speaking, listening, reading, writing, analysis, synthesis, and decision making skills in various real-world contexts. 4c. Engages students in applying methods of inquiry and standards of evidence of the discipline. 6d. Creates opportunities for students to generate and evaluate new ideas, seek inventive solutions to problems, and create original work. 7f. Provides opportunities for students to understand, question, and analyze information from multiple and diverse sources and perspectives to answer questions and solve real-world problems.

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