What is Rigor?

In response to Mrs. Stevens blog,

Rigor is the heightened standard at which you challenge yourself to accomplish a goal or activity.

In order to incorporate rigor into any activity, you basically have to set a higher standard for your students so that you can see how they are working "rigorously."

When you use rigor, then you are heightening the ability of work the students are able to acquire. For example, when you increase the amount of rigor that you put into an assignment for two different students, you will find that the two students will have different levels of difficulty because of the amount of rigor put into the assignment. 

How would I inject rigor into an assignment?

• For me to inject rigor into an assignment, I would probably make an assignment for my students that have more of a challenge for them to do. The students will end up using more critical thinking, and thus increasing the amount of rigor. 

Creativity Counts!

In response to Mrs. Stevens blog,

What is Creativity?

• Creativity is the "process of having original ideas that have value," according to Sir Ken Robinson. Now in my own words, creativity is the ability to put value forth an idea that you might have for any activity, lesson, etc. 

Why does Creativity matter in Education?

• Creativity matters in education because you need to be able to have a range of different things that you are teaching. You don't want to be considered boring, because you're teaching the same subject the exact same way every year. You're going to want to go outside of your comfort level, and come up with something that will be better for the students to want to concentrate.

How do we fix this?

• In order for us to fix this, then we are going to have to come out of our shells, and be more outgoing and thoughtful of our ideas that we have when we are doing lessons.