Welcome Depth and Complexity Educators! This is a page for all participants that attended the MRESC Depth and Complexity workshops, which began on November 17, 2021 in Bellefontaine and continues with online workshops in February and April, 2022. Below you will find information about your upcoming online workshops along with other resource the activities that will help you implement D & C throughout the school year and beyond.
After the live portion of the upcoming online workshops, you will assigned a few asynchronous activities. Upon completion, you will receive feedback from our Depth and Complexity team as as well as another 6-hour completion certificate from The Center for Depth and Complexity/J Taylor Education. The live online workshops will last a combined 2.5 hours and then the asynchronous assignments, provided after each online workshop, will take you another 3 hours or so to earn that second 6-hour certificate.
DEPTH AND COMPLEXITY UPCOMING ONLINE WORKSHOPS
Please choose to attend both workshops in either Option A or Option B
Option A: Thursday mornings, 6:30-7:45 am, Feb.17th and April 28th
Option B: Tuesday afternoons, 3:00-4:15 pm, Feb. 15th and April 26th
February 15 and February 17 Online Workshop Descriptions
Making Depth & Complexity Work for ME!
Now that you have attended an introductory Depth & Complexity workshop, it’s time to focus on using the Framework with your own specific curriculum and content? This workshops models the integration of several low-prep Depth & Complexity activities and sample lessons and then provides attendees with time to design some that align to their own content. Leave the sessions feeling confident about incorporating Depth and Complexity in anything you teach.
ASYNCHRONOUS ACTIVITIES to complete AFTER the February online workshops (these four along with one activity from the April online PD will allow you to earn another 6-hour completion certificate).
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Activity 1 – Frames
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Activity 2 – Learning analysis with D & C
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Activity 3 – Big Idea G.O. – Channel Island Fox
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Activity 4 – A Deep and Complex Look at The Impossible Burger
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Feel free to share anything you have created with D & C and your own content. We will always respond and share our feedback. Send it here: [email protected].
Google Shared Folder of Resources
Individual/Group Work from the online PD
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
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Google Chrome Depth and Complexity Icon Extension
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Conversational Roundtable
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D & C Cheat Sheet
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Depth and Complexity Informational Slides
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Depth and Complexity Video Library Access (you have free access through May 30, 2022)
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Register for your MRESC account at: https://depthcomplexity.com/new-member-group-registration/?group_code=mresc
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When you are signed up, you can login and watch instructional Depth and Complexity videos at www.depthcomplexity.com.
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Once logged in, go to “Videos and Courses” to watch.
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Frames Software License (free lifetime license – Register for free, or if you have an existing license, it will be extended)
April 25 and April 27 Online Workshop Descriptions
Process Differentiation and “CAP”
Process Differentiation is under-utilized in our current educational system even though it is a distinct and critical phase in learning. Help students forge deeper understandings and improved retention by differentiating “process” in your classroom. This session focuses on how to use learning profiles (creative, analytical, practical) with the Icons for Depth and Complexity to develop lessons differentiated for process. We will explore lessons (CAP Activities) and create an activity/lesson to use immediately, employing the DC Icons to ensure a quality learning experience for students.
HANDOUTS FROM APRIL ONLINE WORKSHOPS
ASYNCHRONOUS ACTIVITIES for April online workshops
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Activity 1 – CAP with your own content
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Activity 2 – CAP with your own content (do a second one with your own content…same assignment, just different content)
