Description
Are your lessons rigorous? The point of education is to help cultivate deep critical thinkers, not just to teach students how to ace a test. If we’re not careful, we can create lessons and activities that some students breeze through. We have to make sure that our instruction is rigorous for each student and that they are challenged every day. Many educators already have plans in place to help students who fall behind, but we also need to make sure to plan for students who speed ahead.
Educators Leanna Ferreira and Jenny Pennell say that the key to creating academically rigorous lessons lies in identifying and implementing characteristics of rigor. In the course “Planning for Rigor,” educators will discover how to promote thinking that goes beyond recalling information and helps students make meaning for themselves.
In this course you will learn:
- To Identify the characteristics of rigor
- To Determine levels of rigor
- The stages of rigorous thinking
Click here for a leader’s guide created by the Ohio Association for the Gifted and Talented.
Keith – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Very good presentation on introducing rigor.
Dawn – River View Local Schools (verified owner) –
This course offered a different way of looking at rigorous instruction for gifted students. I appreciated the activities and reflections which allowed real-world examples of how rigor could be used in the classroom. This was a very worthwhile course.
Leeann – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Very valuable info.
Elisabeth – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I thought this course was very helpful!
Yvonne – RIESEL ISD (verified owner) –
This course gives you the foundation for what rigor is and its stages of thinking.
Grace – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Beyond everyday rigor.
Jamie – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful explanation of how to increase rigor in the classroom.
Josi – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
This course challenged me to use Dr. Jackson’s characteristics of rigor and apply them with more layers of thinking skills.
Sally – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Strongly recommend this course for planning for rigor.
chriselda – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course helped me understand what rigor is and what it looks like inorder for me to apply it to my lessons.
John – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
This was a great introduction to approaches to rigor, as it invites participants not just to read definitions of the characteristics of rigor, but also to apply these definitions to practical examples of instructional activities.
Marie – VAN WERT CITY (verified owner) –
Provided new terms/ways to organize instruction with rigor
Jennifer – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –
great and very informative
Monica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
very interesting
MARTHA – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent information on how to incorporate rigor into lessons.
Melody – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Not as helpful as I was hoping.
Sylva – CLEBURNE ISD (verified owner) –
It’s a different way of thinking.
Ronald – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
Good organization of material.
Lorena – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very good
Alisha – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas on how to add rigor to my lessons
Nora – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great information regarding using rigor in lessons.
Teena – FLOUR BLUFF ISD (verified owner) –
This was perfection!!
Michelle – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
Useful, practical
Selika – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
The presenters were very knowledgeable on the topics discussed.
Adam – MIAMI EAST LOCAL (verified owner) –
An interesting look at higher level thinking processes and demonstrations.
Todd – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
Clear and easily understood.
Alyson – Allen East Local Schools (verified owner) –
This course was informative.
Kathy – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
Good presentation of material… a bit overwhelming with multiple activities to respond to with new information.
Erica – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
It was great.
Michelle – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I like to have strategies that can be used in the classroom.
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course had details on what rigor really means and how to apply it in class it includes examples.
Blanca – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Enjoyed.
Erik – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
It’s good and quick and gets you thinking about this information.
Nancy – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
Greta review and practical application ideas to easily make lessons more rigorous
Martin – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Good ideas and examples.
Aide – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
New info and hard to understand/process.
Chere – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
This is great information to help the teacher create and implement lessons that will push the GT students beyond mastering standards.
Lubette – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Good
christel – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
helpful for evaluating lessons and materials for rigor
Rosario – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great information
Gilda – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Ernestina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
The use of rigor stages in every lesson.
Leticia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Provides an in-depth look at rigor.
Selina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great Course
Katie – CARDINAL LOCAL (verified owner) –
I would have liked more examples.
ViCindy – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
This has been the most helpful in putting the information together that helps me to be better at what I do.
Stacy – CARDINAL LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course was helpful.
Lilly – MONROEVILLE LOCAL (verified owner) –
It has a lot of information.
Cleopatra – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
This info is relevant, timely and useful. It is a bit complex but certainly something that I will implement in my GT student’s learning experiences.
Emily – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –
Great explanation of rigor. Examples were not for the lower elementary level as I had hoped