Active Learning for ALL: Differentiating Instruction with Depth and Complexity

Patry Lerwicklerwick2@aol.com

Giftedness is a greater awareness, a greater

sensitivity, and a greater ability to understand and transform perceptions into intellectual and emotional experiences.

(Roeper, 1982)

persistenceobservationinquisitivenessimagination

original ideasquestioning

Student choice and value for engaging in a task as it relates

to challenging activity and curriculum of interest has been

found to promote creativity, cognitive flexibility and

persistence.

(Van Tassel-Baska, 2006; Duglas, 2004; Gentry, Rizza & Owen, 2002)

Concrete Abstract

Depth Complexity Novelty

Dependent Independent

Reflective Learners

Critical and Creative Thinking

SkillsDepth and Complexity

Universal Concepts

Thinking Like a Disciplinarian

Dimensions of Depth and Complexity

Depth Discipline exploration How do teachers and students

dig deeper into the curriculum? Focus teacher’s and student’s

attention on increasingly more difficult, divergent, and abstract qualities of knowing a discipline or area.

Language of the

Discipline

Trend

Detail

Big Ideas

Unanswered Questions

Patterns

Ethics

Rules

Complexity

How the topic relates to other disciplines

How does perspective affect the way disciplinarians explain their environment?

How knowledge is extended or broadened

Across the Disciplines

PerspectiveOver Time

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How is drilling oil like studying a topic?