Description
How can you help students think beyond surface-level understanding and engage with content like real-world professionals? In this engaging 1-hour course, Lisa Van Gemert of Gifted Guru dives into the two most sophisticated elements of the Depth and Complexity framework: Disciplinarianism and Universal Themes. Van Gemert offers both a theoretical foundation and practical classroom applications to help educators enrich student thinking and foster authentic engagement.
Disciplinarianism encourages students to approach learning as if they were professionals in the field—historians, scientists, artists—while Universal Themes tie learning across disciplines to big ideas like justice, systems, and power. With examples ranging from lab coats and maps to Ernest Hemingway and welding, this course provides real strategies you can implement immediately.
In this 1-hour course, you will discover:
- How to use Disciplinarianism to help students adopt expert perspectives
- What all disciplines have in common and how to apply that in class
- Why Universal Themes create powerful cohesion across content
- How to use thinking prompts and visual cues to deepen learning
- Practical strategies to make learning feel fun, fresh, and intellectually rich
This course is part of a Depth and Complexity series.
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