Depth and Complexity
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Sandra Kaplan
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Associate professor of learning and instruction at the University of Southern California, suggests that teachers move students, especially gifted students, into greater depth and complexity, guiding them toward academic excellence and scholarliness.

Kaplan recommends eight ways that teachers can guide students to a greater depth of understanding. These strategies, while particularly helpful in lifting the glass ceiling for gifted learners, will help all students excel academically.

Depth: Exploring a discipline by looking below the facts and investigating generalizations, principles, and universal concepts.

Complexity: The ability to see
relationships between
and among ideas in
and within a
discipline.




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