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
Click here for a leader’s guide created by the Ohio Association for the Gifted and Talented.
Tracey – LA GRANGE ISD (verified owner) –
It was appropriate. I would have enjoyed it more in-person.
Heather – LA GRANGE ISD (verified owner) –
The information was very good. More examples the level of thinking part could be helpful.
Jane – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
Straightforward
Nicholas – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
This was helpful because it broke down the complexities of thinking and made it approachable for teachers and students alike! I liked that it had immediate applications for increasing the rigor of classroom activities we already do.
Diana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
good course
Sylvia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course.
Tenille – LA GRANGE ISD (verified owner) –
Not very meaningful and would not take course with same instructor.
Rosa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great training.
MARTHA – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great materials.
Carmen – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It would had been better in person to be able to ask questions.
Ana – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Course had great information but too much for a one hour course
Jenifer – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
It was a good breakdown of the stages of thinking and a clear explanation of the characteristics of rigor.
Kathleen – ARANSAS PASS ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Isabel – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
arduous
Caroline – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
Helpful course.
Teresa – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
I found this one a little hard to follow.
Elise – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
interesting use of deeper thinking
Molly – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
Not enough examples in my content area.
Clinton – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
The activities helped me process the information.
Kylie – SANDUSKY CITY (verified owner) –
Terrible! Way too much information. Extremely confusing to understand.
Rick – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
very interesting
Elizabeth – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
It was informative but difficult to really learn on the computer. I had to take photos of many things that should have been handouts. I
Sandee – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
I did not learn anything that will be useful in my own classroom. I use a variety of tasks that have been developed through physics education research to develop critical thinking that is specific to my discipline. Learning the names of someone’s classification scheme was as useful as learning the names of the fungi growing in my front yard.
Jordan – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
very informative
Melissa – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
It’s okay
Mitchell – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
Loved the additions going beyond Bloom’s.
Sally – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
some of the activities were redundant
Elizabeth – LA GRANGE ISD (verified owner) –
Teaches you the many types of rigor!
Ben – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
It was good
William – CIRCLEVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
This video has a lot of good ideas to increase rigor in the classroom
Kathy – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
The course contained valuable information that I will use in my classroom.
Kimberly – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
easy to get through, I appreciated having realistic activities to use as examples
Jennifer – WARREN CITY (verified owner) –
It is very boring and would be more beneficial to have been given a list of ways to take current lessons and make them rigorous.
Sarah – SANDUSKY CITY (verified owner) –
Good overall.
Amanda – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
Great. excellent opportunity.
Karen – LEANDER ISD (verified owner) –
This was a wealth of knowledge on ways to incorporate rigor.
Hope – ELYRIA CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Great PD course.
Kristin – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the practice.
Carrie – NORTHRIDGE LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course is helpful for the classroom teacher because its focus is on thinking. The information could help all students in the classroom and help teachers evaluate curricular materials.
Justin – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
These are fairly complex instructional theories that don’t fit in a 60 minute on-line PD.
James – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
Too much information in a short time. The reflective exercises were ok but after a few became boring
Woodrow – RIPLEY-UNION-LEWIS-HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
A lot like the others that I have taken
Nathan – CIRCLEVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
I wasn’t impressed.
Susan – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
It’s helpful
Paula – WESTERN BROWN LOCAL (verified owner) –
Good information.
Bridget – CINCINNATI CITY (verified owner) –
Very interesting and helpful