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“But the Kids Say My Class is Too Hard Already” Increasing the Level of Rigor in the High School Classroom LOCAL LOGICGAPSS Recommendations Increase the Rigor of Classroom Instruction On the days observed, 26% of classrooms observed were utilizing higher order thinking skills “Real World” LOGIC Problem Solving Critical Thinking Leadership Collaboration Agility Adaptability Initiative Entrepreneurialism Effective Written Oral Communication Accessing Analyzing Information Curiosity Imagination The Criticism of Increased Rigor An Abandonment of Content for Process “We Need to Use Academic Content to Teach the 7 Survival Skills Every Day…” Student Motivation Lacking Remember that many students have NEVER been asked to THINK Teacher Fear of Risk Taking Failure Out of frustration challenge comes problem solving better teaching Parent Complaints Misunderstanding Know why you are doing things a certain way and quote the data HOW CAN I MAKE THIS HAPPEN? Costa’s 3 Levels of Inquiry From AVID: Tools for Answering and Asking questions Costas Model of Intellectual Functioning Level one questions for gathering and recalling information Level two questions for making sense of gathered information Level three questions for applying and evaluating information Level 1 Questions The answer can be found in the text Either directly or indirectly Very concrete and pertains only to the text. Facts about what has been heard or read. Information is recalled in the exact manner/from it was heard or read. Level 1 Signal Words LEVEL ONE: Define Describe Identify List Name Observe Recite Scan Level 2 Questions The answer can be inferred from the text. This type of more abstract question deals only with the text. Information can be broken down in parts. Involves examination, analysis, causes of details. Level 2 Signal Words Level 2 Analyze Compare Contrast Group Infer Sequence Synthesize Level 3 Questions Answer goes beyond text and could do t