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.
Stefanie – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Thoughtful and engaging
Karina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was GREAT
Marylou – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was good.
Pauline – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
This is one of the best online professional development courses I’ve taken. It gave me an excellent, simple framework to help me clarify my expectations for my students, as well as allowing me an easy way to differentiate between students with different needs. The instructor was engaging and gave excellent concrete examples of how to use the icons in courses. I will be using this content as I go into the coming school year. I would also be interested in similar training on this framework.
Noe – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
I like the idea of Icons representing big ideas, rules, patterns, etc.
Jill – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
This course was great. So helpful with great information!
Samantha – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very helpful
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent way to review GT icons and much more to use with your whole class.
Shelly – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed it!
Dianne – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Great information
Cynthia – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very interesting, still interactive and helped me to work and learn on my own pace.
Natalie – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very informative and gave me some good ideas I can use in my classroom.
Chloe – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
very helpful and informative
Judith – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course was helpful in explaining how Depth and complexity icons can be used in all subjects
Kristel – GOOSE CREEK CISD (verified owner) –
This was a new way to think about learning targets and how you can incorporate deeper student understanding of content.
Mimi – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was helpful to think about the elements that go into planning for diverse populations in the classroom. The task statement practice was extra helpful at the end to show how it can be changed for the different needs in the classroom.
Jessica – DRISCOLL ISD (verified owner) –
I had some knowledge of the depth and complexity icons from last year’s sessions. But through this session I was able to see how to combine the use of the 11 original icons with the 5 content imperatives. I especially loved the examples of task statements so that I can now include them in my planning.
Shaunna – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
This course was amazing. I learned many new skills that I can use to become a better teacher.
David – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
The icon system to depth and complexity in teaching is very useful and can be very beneficial to all students, not just GT.
Jerica – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
This course was super interactive! What you learn can be applied to all students learning.
Hillary – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was interesting and easily applicable to my classroom as well as a general or specials classroom.
Maria L – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
It was a great course! Very helpful and great ideas!!
Marie – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
I thought this was a great course. The pacing was great, and the reflections were useful.
Juliene – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course, I love how thorough the presenter was with examples at every level, subject and type.
LaWanda – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
This course has given me a better understanding of how students should be thinking at a more complex level.
Clarissa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Cynthia – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Provides method to differentiate instruction across content areas and address learning needs of students.
Joshua – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Amazingly interactive and goes across all contents!
Jacqueline – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative.
Cindy – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very detailed and informative.
Claudia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Love this course! Very informative!
Nichole – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
It was a great course!
Veronica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very usefull information
Destany – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
The presenter gave many examples of how to use D & C in the classroom. I will definitely use a lot of what was presented today.
Josselin – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
excellent course
Jayne – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course on digging into depth and complexity for the subject that you teach.
eduardo – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course can be applied immediately in any classroom.
Orfelinda – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course is interesting. It guides you how to using the different icons when teaching lessons.
Carlos – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
This course was excellent. I learned other phases of D&C which I did not knew about. I loved how he made it simple to understand. His activities were great.
Brian – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
The material is helpful and immediately applicable to the classroom. The format of the course is helpful, broken into digestible chunks and sequenced appropriately.
Yushiqua – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
This course was well designed the videos were short and very informative. This made the learning very easy to remember. As a veteran teacher, I learned a tremendous amount of additional knowledge about depth and complexity.
Julie – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
I love the convenience of this course’s online availability.
Nancy – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Amazing and helpful!
Verice – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
This was a very informative and useful course. Mr. Brillhart is very knowledgeable of the content and provided GREAT ways to incorporated the content in ALL subject areas!
Fernando – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Mr. Brillhart, did an excellent job, detailing and explaining in simple ways all the concepts to be applied not only to our GT students, but to ALL of our students.
EXCELLENT course
Windy – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Great frames and templates.
Joseph – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
Great course with in depth ideas.
Sherri – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
I thought it was easy to follow and take notes, provided great examples and opportunity to reflect.
Sandra – Aldine ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting. Thanks
Mackenzie – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
It was useful for my specific needs.