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.