Behavior Management and cool teacher websites

Visit www.classdojo.com for behavior management help (it's free!)
www.remind101.com - - for safe communication between students and teachers
www.flocabulary.com -- for creative lesson supplements

What is Rigor

Ask yourself this when lesson planning:

What Is Rigor?

1. It means your lessons are planned to the second.  Use a timer!

2. It means your activities are rigorous and on grade level.

3. It means your content and language objectives are visible, useable and aligned to the lesson. Students should be writing down the objectives each day in a notebook and can refer back to them when they need to. 

4.  It means you are differentiating the lesson to reach all students in front of you. You must know where students are in relation to the standard.  Objectives should be written using language from Bloom's Taxonomy.

5. It means you are using your assessments to drive your instruction, grouping plans and re-teaching objectives. Do not teach students what they already know or fail to have a plan to be certain every child has mastered today's objectives.  Know how to challenge your students, how to push them beyond proficiency.

6.  It means your lessons are purposeful and meaningful to all students. They understand why today's learning is personally important, useful and relevant. 

7.  It means that students are using the language of the lesson.  There is ample opportunity for student conversation, reading and writing to solidify the concepts and skills.  It means there should be more student talk than teacher talk, it means that students are expected to explain their thinking, it means you don't accept yes/no answers orally or in writing.