Rigor Strategies
“Rigor is the goal of helping students develop the capacity to understand content that is complex, ambiguous, provocative, and personally or emotionally challenging.”
Teaching What Matters Most: Standards and Strategies for Raising Student Achievement by Richard W. Strong, Harvey F. Silver and Matthew J. Perini ASCD 2001
Teaching What Matters Most: Standards and Strategies for Raising Student Achievement by Richard W. Strong, Harvey F. Silver and Matthew J. Perini ASCD 2001
Strategies for classroom instruction :
- Demonstrate that getting the right answer is important, but that communicating about the thinking that goes into solving the problem is even more important.
- Ask open-ended questions to get more student involvement.
- Use open-ended questions to elicit critical and creative thinking from students
- Use Bloom’s taxonomy to write and ask questions
- Provide Bloom’s taxonomy for students to ask and write good questions
- Ask students if there’s another way of solving the problem
- Guide students to different ways of solving a given problem through questioning
- Teach the strategy: The answer is _________; What is the question? as a great way to show students how to answer open-ended questions
- Build confidence through open-ended experiences
- Create questions with students and then have students create their own questions
- Give more processing time to allow students to think