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Here is an assignment that I gave to the students.

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Real world connections. Market Day. Student develop a business plan, understand supply and demand. Research cost of production. Demonstrate creativity. It can be class based or school based. Last year my class used checks to buy from the 5th grade class. I gave them a budget. They went out and bought different pieces of clothing. They would earn money as an incentive to shop at the market.

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Rigor is an activity that challenges and develops a students thinking process from conventional to an in-depth form of reasoning to reach a certain conclusion.

One of my activities in differentiated instruction is to skew my students thinking process by having others complete part of the work and having another finish it. This promotes a different style of reaching an answer using clues and strategies and it solidifies which thinking pattern or process they feel most comfortable with.

Ex. Cause and effect

Whole Group:

Students write down a "cause" and then tell me the "effect" or vice versa.

During differentiated instruction one student completes the "effect" portion and the other student tries to figure out the possible causes or vice versa. This shows me whether or not student has mastered the L.A.F.S.

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After reading a story in French, my second grade students had to imagine they were the character in the story and write a letter to another character using the format of a letter and specific vocabulary words in a specific verb tense.

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Connotations of words. Using a vocabulary word, we find many different uses and mental images that can be created according to how they are used.

For an imaginative poem that had very little reality and described a dreamlike world
,the students would draw what they understood and what they "saw in their minds" when reading the poem.

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Students created a paper bag project to demonstrate their knowledge of the elements of a narrative using a novel they selected to read independently (teacher approved, of course). Each panel of the paper bag was designated for a specific narrative element, and each panel had it's own set of requirements. Students had to incorporate images and be sure that all written work demonstrated fluency in writing. Afterwards, students presented their paper bag project to class. Students' peers were exposed to many different texts, and students demonstrated and applied their knowledge of narrative elements in a creative and thoughtful way, providing a creative alternative to a traditional assignment such as publishing their own narrative. The project covered many of the LAFS, and it incorporated technological as well as presentation skills! I found this to be way more engaging and effective! Students gained confidence from this assignment and were empowered with their success! It also tapped into many of the multiple intelligence facets, providing all students with opportunity for success!

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Rigor as exactitude and accurateness:

strict Writing rules students must follow on a daily basis in their writing journals. The students learn to be rigorous and structured. The repetitiveness of the task enables exactitude.

Rigor as complexity:

We worked on a series of books sharing the same theme, (the wolf) comparing and contrasting the characters, the story lines and the different endings. We then picked our favorite book, our favorite characters and created our own story as a class. Each student was responsible for illustrating a page and we assembled our work.

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Le loup qui voulait visiter la Corée, CP

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Lecture du livre écrit par les élèves de la classe de CP. Le loup qui voulait visiter la Corée Classe de CP, M. Bouhours, mars 2015

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In the classroom we write as a whole class multi-step word problems that require more than one operation.  The task requires integrating language and math.  It also requires students to use metacognitive thinking as they  come up with problems that require at least two steps and two mathematical operations.

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In classroom we analyse problem, do lab, learn theory related to particular physical phenomena.Then solve problems related to this physical phenomena . Finally we do assessment of learned topic.

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Developed text and discussion questions that simulate the FSA format and then given the students the guidance to create their own test questions so that they understand the thought process behind the question and answer connection.

Edcite and Kahoot have been good for text prep/review.

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"Edcite Schools has made giving Common Formative Assessments and collecting the data from them so much easier and quicker! The continuous updates and improvements in the reports give teachers timely access to the data they need to make decisions about instruction for different groups."
-Melanie Thiesse, Instructional Facilitator, Central Junior High, Springdale, AR

"Shelby City Schools is using Edcite Schools as our "go-to" assessment platform for students in grades 3-10 so that they are prepared to take the Ohio state online assessments. Edcite Schools has opened the doors for our teacher-based teams (TBTs) to have data readily available to make instructional changes and monitor all students."
-Paul Walker, Assistant Superintendent & Director of Curriculum, Shelby City Schools

"As an instructional technology specialist, I use Edcite to build assignments and send these to multiple schools and teachers in my district. Edcite's question types have prepared our students for what they will see on the PARCC assessments."
-Dee Thomas, Instructional Coach, Bentonville HS, AR

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Create assessments using tech-enhanced item bank or author your own items. Instant feedback and standards reports FREE for teachers.

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Uta Hagen's 6 Steps for text analysis and character building

Character biography tables (includes history of time period and relationship analysis)

Vocal and Physical Warm ups - after instructing them in how to do vocal and physical warm ups we have them lead the class in a warm up to see how much was retained.

Have students create a Commedia dell 'Arte using the stock characters discussed in Italian Renaissance

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I have had students complete a virtual lab where they compared and contrasted human bone structures to bone structures in other animals. They had to discuss how the differences in structures relate to the idea of how biologically structure is related to function.

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I've taken an end product and chunked my expectations into multiple Home Learning assignments. Homework is often seen as "busy work" and students aren't receptive to that. However, I like to show them what the end will look like and that gives them an idea of what they need to do to achieve that goal. When I've assigned an essay of culminating E.Q.'s, I required for the students to answer the daily E.Q. for homework. At the end of the two weeks, they were to take all of their responses to answer a final E.Q. that encompasses the unit. It required them to edit their previous responses, merge their responses, and connect each of their responses. It prevented the burnout I was seeing when the school year initially started, but increased the "Brain Sweat" that pushed them into a different realm of learning. Their Home Learning ultimately became their very own resources.

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For a bell ringer question, I do not have students answer a large amount of questions, but rather one question that needs a complex answer that is written in a complete paragraph. For example, rather than asking students to list the parts of the digestive system I have students write a paragraph about the journey of food through the body. Not only does this increase the rigor of the Bell Ringer but also has them work on their skills for other classes such as Language Arts.

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Have students create their own small "Greek chorus" moment summarizing a past event. Then students create purposeful movements that capture the essence of each sentence and perform that at the end of class.

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Rigor is something that is academically well organized and structured while allowing students to analyze the answer.

One thing that I regularly do is give my students two different primary or secondary sources, usually with contrasting opinions, I will then hand out one document to one half of the class and the other document to the other half of the class, then ask the students to defend their positions.

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We discussed the literary form of "Elfchen", an eleven word poem. Topic: spring. We brainstormed words. I wrote the words on the board. Students made their own poem using the correct format. Later they took a picture in our school garden (eg. butterfly, flower). They uploaded the picture on fotobabble, and they recorded their poem. The link shows an example. It's the project of a first grader.

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Rigorous Task Used in Classroom:

A rigorous task that I have used to observe student performance in the subject of Chemistry is a molecular project that I designed for them while I was taking my Methods of Assessment Course at Miami-Dade College. The task consisted of two parts. One part was the design of a molecular model of an organic molecule and the second part was a report that required the students to determine the functional groups found in the molecule that they had chosen to model. The molecular model introduced rigor into the classroom because the students no longer were expected to recall models, they were now being asked to build their own models. In addition, they had top use strategic thinking to distinguish and determine the behavior that each functional group caused in the molecule. They also analyzed the structure, looking for different inter-molecular and intra-molecular forces. They had to analyze how these interactions affected the molecule as one unit and the molecules as a group.

This project questioned student reasoning and understanding of molecular physics as well as their perception of what other authorities in the subject had to say. Rigor, revolutionizes the student's views and leads them to inquire more about our current understanding of any subject. These inquiries usually lead to better understanding and many approaches to learning a subject.