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Rigor allows teachers to accurately gauge how much students know and how to fine tune lessons. Furthermore it allows the student to think critically while bein immersed in content.

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Rigor is to make things a little more challenging for students in order for them to increase their critical thinking. It does not mean impossible.

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Challenging your students and yourself to higher standards.

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Rigor is the result of students being challenged to think in new and different ways. It is meaningful for them. It is not necessarily difficult just for the sake of being difficult, contrary to popular belief of what rigor is in education.

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Rigor in education for me it means that students are able to understand complex ideas while learning. It is important to create lessons that are rigorous to allow students to incorporate their own creativity allowing students to think in various ways.

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To us, we used to think of rigor as being the academic work.  But now being in Education we see rigor as not just difficulty, but also a result of depth of understanding. We see rigor as challenging the student to their best of the ability, not always giving them the hardest academic work.

Too many times we ask our students to think by the book, and that is great, but in reality life asks us to think in a variety of different modalities.

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What does rigor mean to you?
Challenging content.

Why would it be important to make your lessons rigorous?
To challenge learners to help them reach their full potential.

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"Rigor is a result, not a cause."
We believe that rigor doesn't come from the content but rather from stretching the students' thinking and understanding.

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Rigor means tough and challenging but not impossible. It is important to make your lessons rigorous to keep students on their toes, on the edge of their seats, and eager to learn.

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"Rigor is the result of work that challenges students' thinking in new and interesting ways." It would be important to make lessons rigorous to build students understandings and skills. Rigor helps students become complex learners.

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Making things difficult is not the same as making things deeper. Take a painting of a cityscape for example. Rigorous thinkers would look at the picture and find multiple interpretations and significances to the painting.

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Rigor is a result,
not a cause. Rigor doesn't simply mean giving students more or harder work. Instead, it's the result of work that challenges students' thinking in new and interesting ways.

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Rigor is the result of work that challenges students' thinking in new and interesting ways. Making the course rigorous is important to keep students interested and involved.

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Harder is not better. Student involvement improves learning. Making the content more interesting for the students learning.

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Rigor is challenging students minds. Gradually increasing the level of difficulty to keep students engaged.

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Marisol Rodriguez

Rigor to us is making the lessons more challenging which will allow the students to expand their mind.

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To us, rigor means making things more demanding and challenging. In the article, rigor means to challenge students into higher thinking.
It is important to make lessons more rigorous so that students can academically grow above their grade level.

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Rigor means to have intellectually challenging work that helps student push through their old capabilities. Individual to each student.

Rigor is necessary to challenge students and help them think in new and interesting ways