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My biggest challenge to increase rigor in my classroom is

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planning lessons that meet that needs of my students. In kindergarten, I have a wide-range of ability levels. The majority of our lessons are whole group and focus on foundational skills. In addition, I can find it hard to get my kiddos to think deeply and critically. I would like to learn ways to increase rigor in different ways to meet the needs of all of my students.

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measured in the depth of understanding. Rigor is a result, not a cause.

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giving students more or harder work to do.

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My biggest challenge to increase rigor in my classroom is

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planning time! This year I have student of many levels and many different needs/learning styles. If I really sat down and planned out different things for each of those students I feel I would then need to have individual lessons for each of them also helping them along the way. I already teach reading and math in small groups to try and help with this, but that is not even breaking it down enough for all of the different learning levels I have.

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giving students more work that is out of their ability range.

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creating lessons and assignments that make the students think deeper and more critically about what they are doing.

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about increasing a student's workload or requiring a more difficult task with less teacher scaffolding and support.

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planning and implementing lessons that provide a deeper understanding of the content and allow students to apply this knowledge in authentic ways.

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My biggest challenge to increase rigor in my classroom is

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Time! Presenting problems that require several solution components requires lots of time. There are so many other things we need to teach because of standardized testing, we tend to put the rigorous problems aside "for another day" because we just can't squeeze it in and have it be meaningful.

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presenting problems to students that require a thoughtful, effective solution that involves components of the mathematical practices such as using models, making sense of problems, or using the appropriate tools. It's not a quick, "one and done."

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Stressing kids out by giving them more difficult work than what they are capable of. I think teachers think they "have to have rigor" in order to be a successful teacher. Maybe so, but it depends on your definition of rigor

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"adequate time and sufficient support."

Even though the Common Core articles all state that standards were eliminated, I do believe that more or at least more complicated standards were added to 8th-grade math. I have enough time to challenge the average 8th-grade student, but there is not enough time to meet the rigor needs of struggling and high-achieving students.

If I could not have more time, more support would help me. If I had a co-teacher or a part time co-teacher, one of us could assist struggling students while the other worked with high-achieving students.

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the hardest math problem to understand, the longest worksheet, or the fastest lesson.

Rigor is not making a test with the purpose of knowing some students will fail.

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making the students think and talk about math instead of just "doing math."

"Doing math" is the procedural knowledge and necessary for success. Rigor is the conceptual and the application: can you explain the why? Can you decide what to do?

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My biggest challenge to increase rigor in my classroom is

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that this year I have a really unique class that has so many students with a lot of different needs.The class has been a large class, historically, and due to their behaviors have missed out on a lot of instruction through the years. Now that they are here in 4th grade, they have a lot of trouble focusing and staying on task. Working in groups presents its own challenges this year that I do not usually have to work around. SO I find it very hard to work with small groups at their own levels.

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piling up a bunch of work on students that is difficult to complete. Rigor is not assigning harder work just for the sake of keeping kids busy.

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the result of work that pushes students to think in new ways. It occurs when students are encouraged toward a deeper understanding of fundamental ideas and when students display a curiosity to learn new things.

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convincing math teachers, especially at the secondary level, that flexibility is needed to increase rigor and that harder does not equal more rigorous. As an instructional coach, it is proven challenging to get secondary math teachers to change strategies and show flexibility in the process of how math happens. It will require relooking at lessons and differentiating, which will take time. It is also a challenge to fit all the content into the time they have before the testing occurs, and adding anything else (they claim) doesn't allow them to get through the material.

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Adding more work or simply making things harder. It does not mean students need to work faster or skip over the basics to get to the advanced things. I have a feeling if I asked my teachers to define rigor I would see people thinking it needed to be harder as opposed to more connections and application.

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challenging students in the WAY they are thinking and the connections they are being asked to make. As perfectly said in the definition of rigor article, "It occurs when [students] are encouraged toward a sophisticated understanding of fundamental ideas and are driven by curiosity to discover what they don't know."

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the large class sizes with limited adult support. I absolutely love teaching small groups and I'm proud of the tasks and activities I use at my table (transferring their knowledge in new ways-rigorous), but small groups can take up to an hour (4 groups of 6 students each rotating every 15 minutes). I struggle to keep the students away from the table thinking and working independently. It is a lot to ask a first grade to work independently for 45 minutes, even if their stations away from the table vary (technology, partner game, and independent work). Another challenge is the resources provided do not often include activities to teach at a deeper level. Limited planning time to analyze data and create lessons that challenge students is another challenge.

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something that can be achieved without creating a supportive classroom environment. Students need to be able to feel comfortable taking risks and looking at things in new and innovative ways. Rigor requires curiosity and engagement.

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thinking at the highest levels of Bloom's. In the classroom, it is students working in innovative ways to develop a deeper understanding. It's the ability to apply ideas and transfer them to new situations. Rigor requires student engagement and teacher support.

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that I have a lot of different learning types and levels in my classroom, so my biggest challenge would be being able to help all of them while still providing enough rigor.

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to overwhelm or over stress them. It is not to make their education more difficult, but to push them. There should not be work for the students that they are not ready for and for them to overdo it.

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a way for students to create a place where they are expected to learn at high levels and are supported to do all of that. It helps challenge them to want and to do more to further their education in different ways. It makes them think beyond what they already know.

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creating lessons that provide enough rigor to individual students. Many lessons taught in first grade are whole group. I want to provide students with work that is engaging and provides enough rigor to promote a deep understanding but also is not too easy or too difficult. A challenge I see if meeting the individual needs of each student.

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defined by a text, but comes from what students do. It's not a standard across a curriculum. It is not how much is crammed into a school day. Rigor is not the cause of something, but a result.

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providing students with work that challenges what they are thinking. It is ultimately measured by the depth of their understanding. It comes from what students do and is individual to each student's needs. Rigor is a result of challenging work, not the cause of it.

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making sure that all of my students are learning at a pace that works for them, at a level that works for them. I want to be able to meet the needs of all of my students while still promoting rigor to help them with their deeper understanding.

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adding more and more work that is not necessary to improve their learning experiences. If students are given harder or more work while they are not yet ready for it, it would hinder their enjoyment of learning and not provide any benefits towards them.

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Giving students work that encourages them to think deeper and develop a deeper understanding of the work that they are given. This can be done by asking them open ended math questions that asks them more than just what the answer is, but how they got that answer and why they made those choices.

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Time For Diverse Student Needs: Students come to the classroom with varying levels of preparedness, learning styles, and knowledge. Creating rigorous activities and assessments to meet the diverse needs of all students can be challenging for me to keep up with. It is hard to find the time to find a balance between challenging advanced learners and providing necessary support for struggling students. The time it requires for careful planning and differentiation is not always available or an option.

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simply assigning more basic work or harder work. Rigor is not assigning homework just to assign homework. Rigor is not just skimming the surface.

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setting high expectations for all students in the classroom and providing the support needed to achieve those expectations. Rigor is asking open ended questions that have more than one answer and are designed to make students think deeply. Rigor is teaching students how to start asking their own questions. Rigor is achieved through interesting work that challenges our students in meaningful ways.

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meeting the needs of all my students. While I teach middle school math now, the challenge is still the same. I teach in a Title 1 school and we have a wide variety of students ability across all my classes. To provide rigor and teach basic foundational skills in the same class is very challenging!

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making things "harder". Rigor is not students doing identical problems with different numbers and following a set of procedures. While that is a good stepping stone, it is not rigor. Students need to not just 'copy' a teachers way to solve the problem but have true understanding behind the procedure.

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a deep understanding of foundational mathematical concepts while using application. To increase rigor within the classroom students must have those foundational math concepts mastered. Once foundational skills have been mastered, the teacher can increase rigor by having the students apply the skills rather than mimic the procedures.