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.
Presenter Bio
Jenny Pennell is the Gifted and Talented Coordinator at Mid-Ohio Educational Service Center. She also serves as the Region 6 Gifted Coordinator Representative for the Ohio Association for Gifted Children. In addition, Jenny serves as a Children’s Theater Foundation board member. She holds a Master’s Degree in Talent Development Education as well as a Gifted Endorsement from Ashland University.
Leanna Ferreira, Gifted and Talented Coordinator at Mid-Ohio ESC, also serves as the Region 6 Board Member for the Ohio Association of Gifted Children and serves as the secretary for the Coordinator Division. She holds a Gifted Endorsement from the University of Cincinnati, as well as a bachelor’s degree in secondary math education and a master’s degree in library & information science from Kent State University.
chriselda – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course helped me understand what rigor is and what it looks like inorder for me to apply it to my lessons.
Sally – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
Strongly recommend this course for planning for rigor.
Josi – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
This course challenged me to use Dr. Jackson’s characteristics of rigor and apply them with more layers of thinking skills.
Jamie – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful explanation of how to increase rigor in the classroom.
Grace – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Beyond everyday rigor.
Yvonne – RIESEL ISD (verified owner) –
This course gives you the foundation for what rigor is and its stages of thinking.
Elisabeth – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I thought this course was very helpful!
Leeann – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Very valuable info.
Dawn – River View Local Schools (verified owner) –
This course offered a different way of looking at rigorous instruction for gifted students. I appreciated the activities and reflections which allowed real-world examples of how rigor could be used in the classroom. This was a very worthwhile course.
Keith – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Very good presentation on introducing rigor.