1. Depth & Complexity Synthesis:
9/20/2018
Office of Gifted Education
Depth & Complexity Professional Development Project
Empowering Students to Think and Learn Using the Depth & Complexity Framework (Sequential Workshop Suite)
3 workshops that build upon one another to address the entire framework. This one deals with how to use the prompts.
Workshop 3
Depth & Complexity Synthesis:
Encouraging self-directed learning and self-efficacy through project based learning

2. ToT 3 Participant Outcomes:
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ToT 3 Participant Outcomes:
Participants will understand key foundations of Project Based Learning (PBL).
Participants will learn management strategies for PBL
Participants will create an action plan for the implementation of PBL with their audience.
1 min. 2

3. Creating a Climate of Possibility
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Creating a Climate of Possibility
1 min.
We will consider some of the philosophical foundations of PBL. 3

4. How to Escape Education's Death Valley
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How to Escape Education's Death Valley
15 min. Start at 5:19
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5. Where do your students stand on the road to possibility?
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Where do your students stand on the road to possibility?
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things. Jean Piaget
Our students spend at least 20% of their time on relevant and interest based inventing and discovering.
1 min.
Which of the following quotes and possible student outcomes resonate with you and the educators you will be training?
Read each of the quotes and student outcomes so participants will know which one they would like to consider further. 5

6. Where do your students stand on the road to possibility?
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Where do your students stand on the road to possibility?
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Our students have a passion for learning.
1 min. 6

7. Where do your students stand on the road to possibility?
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Where do your students stand on the road to possibility?
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
Students in our buildings remember most of what is taught.
1 min. 7

8. Where do your students stand on the road to possibility?
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Where do your students stand on the road to possibility?
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Maimonides
Our students are on the road to feeding themselves.
1 min. 8

9. Where do your students stand on the road to possibility?
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Where do your students stand on the road to possibility?
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Our students are on fire!
1 min. 9

10. Where do your students stand on the road to possibility?
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Where do your students stand on the road to possibility?
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore
Our students will be prepared for another time.
1 min. 10

11. Gather data as outlined on your directions card.
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Gather data as outlined on your directions card.
15 min.
Each person at your table will join a different “quote” group. Place directions on the table and give them time to read and post on chart paper with their quote on the top. 11

12. View each data chart. What are the parallels among them?
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View each data chart. What are the parallels among them?
10 min.
Gallery walk and then post parallels at bottom of your own chart after viewing all the others.
Which of these are the foundations of PBL? Post on chart paper at front of room. 12

13. Creating a Climate of Possibility
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What are the foundations of PBL?
Which of these foundations are not YET in place in your AU/District/School?
What frontloading needs to be done prior to introducing PBL?
15 min. includes share
Go back to your original table groups to consider: What are the foundations of PBL and does our audience have them?
Share with the larger group what foundations may not be in place and what frontloading needs to be done prior to introducing PBL. 13

14. Be Flexible Flexibility Walk/Stop Name/Clap Dance/Jump 9/20/2018
5 min.
Practice walk and stop. Then practice walk and stop meaning the opposite.
Practice Name (say first name) clap.
Practice walk and stop meaning the opposite along with name and clap
Practice name and clap as opposites.
Practice all four as opposites.
Allow about seconds for each practice round.
Then take a 5 min. break. 14

15. FACILITATED P B L Teacher 9/20/2018 1 min.
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Yesterday we did Teacher Guided PBL. Today you will participate in Teacher Facilitated PBL. Students have more voice and choice in teacher facilitated PBL. Students have the most voice and choice in student determined PBL. 15

16. Where is order found in a seemingly chaotic system?
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Controlled
Where is order found in a seemingly chaotic system?
1 min.
Our mini facilitated PBL is title: Controlled Chaos. Our driving question is: Where is order found in a seemingly chaotic system? 16

17. Be Flexible Flexibility
Stand and partner with someone across the room. 17

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5 min.
Discuss with your partner: How might PBL eliminate some of the classroom management issues you see in this cartoon and why? 18

19. https://goo.gl/images/QRMrru
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10 min.
Discuss with your partner for 5 min.
What other type of management issues do you anticipate having in a PBL classroom? 19

20. What do you need to know about PBL management?
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What do you need to know
5 min.
Return to your table groups to write management issues in the form of questions on sticky notes.
Share questions with your group to determine if there is any overlap. Assign questions evenly among group members.
about PBL management? 20

21. Authentic Public Product
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Authentic Public Product
10 min.
Hand out summative assessment and rubric criteria to review. Group will fill in the GRASPS categories that are open for student voice. 21

22. Be Flexible Flexibility Upside down 9/20/2018 5 min.
Stand with your Differentiation Flip Book in front of you. Open it to the red tab, Icons of Depth & Complexity and Content Imperatives. Hold the flip book upside down and tell me what this new perspective tells you about depth & complexity. 22

23. https://goo.gl/images/tXEWWY
11/3/2017
1 hour
Table Groups collect data to answer their questions and record in electronic format. 23

24. 9/20/2018
20 min.
Critique another group’s product using the assessment rubric. Hand back to group to make final revisions and post to wiki site. 24

25. Making Product Public 9/20/2018 10 min.
Give whole group lesson on how to post products to wiki. Each group makes product public on wiki. 25

26. Ordered Lunch Break 26

27. Public Presentation 9/20/2018 45 min.
Have each group share their presentation as it appears on the Wiki. Show up on the big screen. 27

28. 11/3/2017
REFLECT
What PBL management strategies do you believe best align with your teaching style and philosophy?
Why?
5 min.
Record on notecard with your name. Collect. 28

29. 10 min. Break 29

30. What will contribute to the success of PBL in your situation?
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What will contribute to the success of PBL in your situation?
Planning for Success
Frontloading
Implementation
Follow-up and Support
60 min.
Have them work in groups or alone to outline their own next steps in implementation using the Action Plan document. They can also work on final touches to the mini PBL unit they created the day before. 30

31. Please fill out the evaluation/reflection survey.
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REFLECT
Please fill out the evaluation/reflection survey.
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