Rigor

Hi Charles,

There are some different ways to show administrators the level of rigor of your curriculum if they are not giving you anything in particular as a guideline.

Rigor-relevance matrix @http://www.vcoe.org/Portals/VcssoPortals/cici/Rigor-Relevance%20and%20Cognitive%20Rigor%20Matrix.pdf Bloom's @https://www.icc.edu/innovation/PDFS/assessmentEvaluation/RevisedBloomsChart_bloomsverbsmatrix.pdf Depth of knowledge @http://www.stancoe.org/SCOE/iss/common_core/overview/overview_depth_of_knowledge/dok_chart.pdf Hess rigor matrix (Blooms and DOK combined) @http://static.pdesas.org/content/documents/M1-Slide_22_DOK_Hess_Cognitive_Rigor.pdf

At my school, we are required to use Hess. We write our exams, then align the questions with the Hess matrix.

Here is also a Q-chart for creating questions @http://scampbellkenny.weebly.com/uploads/6/8/6/5/6865490/q-chart.pdf

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I think you are correct in that we have to choose the level of rigor that <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">is appropriate for second language learners without causing frustration, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">and not necessarily the reaching highest rigor levels shown in these <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">documents.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Wendy Brownell <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Spanish Teacher <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">KIPP Denver Collegiate High School

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Here are couple more resources. I think it's actually good that you haven't <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">been given an exact definition; it gives you leeway in how you explain what <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">rigor looks like in your classroom.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">This is Ben Slavic's TPRS definition of rigor <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">@http://www.benslavic.com/Posters/rigor-poster-spanish.pdf

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Toni Theisen has a good handout using the rigor-relevance framework <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">http://tonitheisen.wikispaces.com/SWCOLT+2014 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #500050; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">

Wendy Brownell Spanish Teacher KIPP Denver Collegiate High School