Depth and Complexity PD

For too long, I let my students turn in blah Big Ideas. Here’s how I fixed it.

Here’s how I got better at using the Think Like An Expert technique.

Let’s see a few examples of how Depth and Complexity slides nicely into any graphic organizer.

Why just “identifying patterns” isn’t deep enough.

Why buy premade posters when you can show off your students’ thinking about Depth and Complexity?

I spent about a decade making some pretty major mistakes in my use of depth and complexity.

How to go deep into conflict using the Content Imperatives.

Learn to use the Content Imperatives, a set of five additional tools that work with Depth and Complexity.

Depth and Complexity is a powerful, but often misunderstood, framework for teaching students to think more like experts.

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!

Even our youngest students can learn to think from multiple perspectives!