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
NAGC Teacher Preparation Standards: 3.1, 3.4





Irisema – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
This was a good course on Rigor and the different characteristics.
Francisca – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Great information.
Lourdes – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
It rigorous and has lot of good information
Roxana – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Idalia – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
great and informative
Julie – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Ok
Jennifer – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
great.
Mari – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
It was not very interesting
Flor – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
too much information to take in at once
Sara – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informative.
Michelle – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
This course was really hard for me to understand and answer the questions about the activities.
Victor – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
It was interesting.
Maria – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting and a great review.
Marlinda – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
I liked the information that was given to us.
Kenneth – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Good for increasing learning in a given time
Armando – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Good Course
Patricia – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Very useful information
San Juanita – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting course
olga – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Informative
Diana – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
It is great!
Lisette – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative about rigor.
Perla – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative.
Sara – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Good course
Tomas – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Take what students Take what they’ve learned and apply it in new, unfamiliar contexts to create original solutions or products, and use critical thinking and problem-solving across disciplines.
Dulce – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
interesting
Claudia – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
great!
Ana – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Informative
Leticia – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
It is an excellent course, (5 stars).
Octavio – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Great course
Katherine – BLANCO ISD (verified owner) –
This was very difficult to understand
Maria – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
More resources would be beneficial as well as more application to specific subjects, like science.
Fernando – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
good course
Erica – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
informative
Marianela – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Frances – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative!
Maria Leticia – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
This course is recommended to help the gifted students.
Eliza – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Difficult bit great information.
Erika – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
It was a good course.
Roberto – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
It is good to see activities that could impact students.
Alicia – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Very imformative.
Sarah – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Great Course
Ernesto J – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Good
Reina – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
good
elizabeth – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
good
Laura – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
A new approach I just learned
Martin – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
The course was excellent.
ADRIANA – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative and interactve.
Valerie – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
It was helpful in understanding the levels of rigor.
Senaida – DONNA ISD (verified owner) –
It was very informational.
Kelly – BLANCO ISD (verified owner) –
The 3 levels of rigor presented will be easier to follow and compare if you print out the materials prior to beginning the course.