An introduction to the Depth and Complexity framework for teachers.
Depth and Complexity is a powerful, but often misunderstood, framework for teaching students to think more like experts.
I spent about a decade making some pretty major mistakes in my use of depth and complexity.
For too long, I let my students turn in blah Big Ideas. Here's how I fixed it.
Let's see a few examples of how Depth and Complexity slides nicely into any graphic organizer.
Here's how I got better at using the Think Like An Expert technique.
Learn to use the Content Imperatives, a set of five additional tools that work with Depth and Complexity.
Universal Themes are an easy way to connect lessons, units, and content areas, even going across grade levels, and into students' personal interests.
Combine higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy with the prompts of Depth and Complexity!
How to go deep into conflict using the Content Imperatives.
Why buy premade posters when you can show off your students' thinking about Depth and Complexity?
Why just "identifying patterns" isn't deep enough.