Description
Are your gifted students stuck on surface-level reading comprehension? Do they breeze through essay questions while giving easy answers? When gifted students aren’t properly challenged, they can quickly and correctly finish their work without ever accessing higher-level thinking.
One of the best ways to help your gifted students exercise their critical thinking skills is by differentiating your lessons with depth and complexity, and educator Daniel Brillhart says that using depth and complexity icons can be the key.
The depth and complexity icons help your students look past the first interpretation of the text and dig deep into the rich layers of the content they read. The icons serve as a visual tool to help your students identify key elements of the text.
In this 6-hour course, you’ll learn about:
- The history of the depth and complexity icons
- What each icon means
- How to integrate the icons into your lesson plans
After taking this course, you’ll have a strong foundation in depth and complexity icons and will be able to confidently use them in your lessons.
Cage – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting material.
Michael – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
Pretty good.
Geena – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY – AUSTIN (verified owner) –
Great course to get ideas and to begin to be able to practically apply differentiation in the classroom.
Gabriel – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
A great learning tool!
Kristine – EANES ISD (verified owner) –
Great information
Donna – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
This course provided me with a great deal of useful tools for better lesson planning as well as better content delivery.
Monica – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
I found it to be a practical way to differentiate in blended classrooms.
Angela – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very beneficial and I will be able to take what I learned back to the classroom.
Cordelia – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
This course is very interesting. The information is very important to implement in the classroom.
Janice – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting! Highest levels of thinking!
Lorenzo – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great course!
Richelle – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Learned a lot of great infromation.
Monica – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great information
D’Anissa – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
These course is a great overview of how to use Depth and Complexity in the classroom.
Alexandria – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Hard to follow. Needed more in depth visuals and understanding.
Sara – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
This course was helpful and met my needs!
Monique – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Blanca – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative training.
Meenakshi – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Most valuable course in GT training.
Tara – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Great tools to use with all students to ensure that you are getting them to think deeper.
Barbara – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Informative especially on the Content Imperatives
Dora – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Excellent!! Well paced and very informative. Good for all types of students. It finds the strong points of interests for all.
Della – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Explanation of icons is fair.
Mary – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
Great information! Presenter delivered in a very understandable and engaging way.
Pat – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful tools and strategies to equip students with higher level thinking skills and success.
Mala – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
It’s more challenging than I thought.
Danielle – BELTON ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent information to use in the classroom right away. It was well presented, interesting, and a great was to differentiate lessons.
Raquel – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful course, very simple explained.
Ulyssia – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very long but highly informative!
Cherie – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed learning about the different frames and how to write a specific task statement.
Caitlin – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Informative.
Sylvia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great ways to differentiate for all learners.
Charles – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent!
Gopal – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
It was interesting and useful.
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great training; Very informative!
Suzie – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course. You are given essential tools that may be used to implement depth and complexity icons into your daily lessons in order to provide students with the tools to develop a more in-depth understanding of content.
Mandy – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
This course was amazing!
Carla – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
This was a wonderful course. I learned some valuable information that I can apply in my classroom.
Abelardo – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Excellent
Christine – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this course.
Micah – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
I can’t wait to use these icons in my everyday teaching!
Melinda – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
LOVED THIS! Can’t wait to get started. One of the best PDs EVER!
Arlene – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very thorough and very helpful.
Debra – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course has great resources to understanding Depth and Complexity. Lots of take-aways from all the examples.
Chad – LUBBOCK ISD (verified owner) –
This course provided tangible ways to differentiate in the classroom with minimal impact on planning time.
Elizabeth – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting and useful.
Jeffery – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
It was long but worth it.
Jessica – BETHEL LOCAL (verified owner) –
Great new way of thinking about differentiation!
LAURA Y – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
good
Christa – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of great ideas!