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.
Laura – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
I absolutely loved this training. Thank you for all the great ideas.
Gladys – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative and concise.
Lillian – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Great information! Thank you!.
Isela – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
It was very interesting!
Glendie – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
I think the idea of these icons is a simple way to increase lesson depth and complexity.
Estefana – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Very informative, something I can use.
Katherine – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
This course was hugely helpful. I loved the easy connections for differentiation.
Michelle – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent, very easy guided to understanding and implementing the icons
chanda – FT SAM HOUSTON ISD (verified owner) –
Fabulous and relavant
Juan – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course!!! Easy to follow!
Elizabeth – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Learned so much about using icons to increase the depth in which students are thinking about content.
Charles – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Video seems to repeat
Juan – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
There was a comment left by another educator who stated that there was a lot of talking and no doing, but it is far from the truth. The activities in this training helped me better understand how depth and complexity can be adjusted to all student levels and not only applicable to the most challenging students. Great resources and graphic organizers.
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas and strategies that will be implemented in the classroom.
Mariana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Really good training!
Anne – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
I really like the Depth and Complexity icons and using them in the classroom. I think it helps the students focus on deeper thinking, facilitates great conversations, and adds to classroom discussions.
Heather – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
This was a fantastic professional development course. I did not have any previous knowledge about Depth and Complexity, but I found many tangible, useful strategies to take back to my classroom. After this training, I cannot wait to implement icons into my math classroom.
Barbara – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Gives other good ideas in using icons.
Edna – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
great!
joseph – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Very detailed and thorough.
Kathleen – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
Great info!
Kelly – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
4 – interesting information
Misty – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
Loved it! I got some great activities to help stretch student thinking and independence.
Brenda – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I loved this trainng. I already was somewhat familiar with what the icons are, but I loved how he explained it so simply for someone at my level. I got a lot of good ideas to go back and implement.
Rosalinda – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
It was a great course with excellent information.
Julio Cesar – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Something interesting and useful when it gets to educating GT students.
Cydney – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative. I felt like I took more away from this course compared to other courses I have taken in the past.
maricela – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course on Depth and Complexity.
Camille – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
A great introduction to depth and complexity icons.
Harumi – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Very useful tool to know for any content learning
Ricky – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
A lot of talk, talk, talk, talk, talk…
Samantha – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I loved this course! It was quick & to the point, but gave great detailed explanations!
Julia – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
Great Information
MERCEDES – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
It is very interesting and helpful
Reina – CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course is great. It is paced appropriately and the information is presented in a way where you can truly understand and be able to apply it.
Angela – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent information presented with a multitude of real-world applications for educators at all levels. The instructor is obviously an expert on the topic and I would love to continue to build my skills at integrating the depth and complexity icons.
Stacey – GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD (verified owner) –
This course gave me practical, easy ways to increase depth and complexity in my classroom.
Katherine – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I thought this had a great information that could be used immediately in the classroom with little planning.
Eric – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
It was a great tool to differentiate in the classroom easily. With just switching out the icons that were shown in this training.
Luis – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent Presenter!
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great training; very informative.
ACHLA – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent source for refreshers GT course
Shannon – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
Great!!!
Sarah – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful
Amme – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful.
Ginny – FAYETTE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
This is one of the best courses I have ever taken on GT Ignite! The examples of using the icons were extremely helpful.
Benedict – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I rate this course as a 5 (Best)
Patricia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent presentation
Sharon – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
Good to help focus on the content statements and how to write them for differentiation.
Stephanie – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course offers great, tangible ways to include these elements of depth and complexity into all levels and content areas. I think this also provides easy differentiation for all learners.