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Rigor is challenging students to think, reason and work critically at the upper levels of their ability.

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Rigorous work is work that requires high-level thinking skills, challenging learners to change their understanding of the material or concept.

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Rigorous work is work that requires high-level thinking skills, challenging learners to change their understanding of the material or concept.

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What it is:
-Mental challenge
-Requires effort
-Proof and evidence
-Quality
-Connections
-Uncomfortable at times

What it is not:
-Rote procedures
-Minimal effort
-Quantity
-Memorization
-One size fits all

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RIGOR is cognitively demanding work; making connections either intradisciplinary or interdisciplinary; application of skills that are useful in life; helping students get out of their comfort zone. Student responsibility to persevere, troubleshoot, explore all options, with teacher scaffolding.

How do you model persistence and resilience? How do you teach that it's okay to fail and learn from that?

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Definition Notes:
-Challenges
-Rigor, is it a course of a unit, a lesson or a year?
-Rigor vs Differentiation
-Individualized to each student
-Higher level thinking
-If you have a rigorous lesson, how do you then differentiate it so that there is still rigor?

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Michael, Toi, Rita and Siobhan: The Bulldogs =)

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Michael, Toi, Rita and Siobhan: The Bulldogs =)

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Rigor is a way to approach education. It encompasses all aspects of a topic - interdisciplinary (content: math, science, reading, etc.) and intradisciplinary (concept: growth, rebellion, peace). Therefore, rigor is a learning experience that meets a child wherever he/she is (zone of proximal development) and offers cognitive challenge. It addresses all kinds of learners (multiple intelligences: visual, kinesthetic, auditory, etc.).

Challenges? problem-based (solve an authentic problem), authentic audience

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1. engaging
2. challenging
3. critical thinking
4. depth of content
5. conceptual depth (Blooms Taxonomy, apply, synthesize, evaluate)
6. accessible
7. Individualized by student ownership of choice

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"Anyone, anyone" teacher from Ferris Bueller's Day Off