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.
Matthew – ELYRIA CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
I found it somewhat confusing, and would have preferred to simply read the books mentioned within.
KATHY – CHARDON LOCAL (verified owner) –
There is some good content in the course but the presentation with the different scenarios lost my attention after awhile. It would have been nice to have more variety.
Katherine – WESTERN BROWN LOCAL (verified owner) –
This was very informative and it was nice to see different ways to look at rigor than just the standard blooms and DOK
Julie – WESTERN BROWN LOCAL (verified owner) –
I felt the information was presented in a way that was easy to understand.
Aneta – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
This was a good review of what theology teaching is. Not the real everyday teaching, the textbook piece
Lisa – EASTERN LOCAL (verified owner) –
Practical examples of what rigor is.
Michael – RIPLEY-UNION-LEWIS-HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
Too much information was presented.
Susie – RIPLEY-UNION-LEWIS-HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
Interesting but long
Jennifer – RIPLEY-UNION-LEWIS-HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
New perspective of rigor.
Rebecca – EASTERN LOCAL (verified owner) –
Strong review