Southtowns+Rigor

Tuesday, October 21 @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldSuqzWSFjk @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M9a3so3Zqo @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTAjM9GtrIk @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTAjM9GtrIk
 * Improving Instruction using Data, Rigor, Strategies, and Assessments**

Go to [|https://esd.eschooldata.com] Go to Registration>Students, Click on Radio button, Click on Profile, Click on Assessments You can see the Level score for past three years Ex: Will
 * **__Data__**

@https://dataview.wnyric.org Several reports: Individual Student Levels by test and year. Item Response Analysis Released Performance Question by Location Item Analysis Performance Report/Gap Analysis

Modules - @https://www.engageny.org/resource/kindergarten-mathematics-module-2 - look at the rigor, strategies, assessments, vocabulary
 * **__Instruction:__**

The term **rigor** is widely used by educators to describe instruction, schoolwork, [|learning experiences], and educational expectations that are academically, intellectually, and personally challenging. Rigorous learning experiences, for example, help students understand knowledge and concepts that are complex, ambiguous, or contentious, and they help students acquire skills that can be applied in a variety of educational, career, and civic contexts throughout their lives. In education, rigor is commonly applied to lessons that encourage students to question their assumptions and think deeply, rather than to lessons that merely demand memorization and information recall. For example, a fill-in-the-blank worksheet or multiple-choice test would not be considered rigorous by many educators.

While some educators may equate rigor with difficultly, many educators would argue that academically rigorous learning experiences should be sufficiently and appropriately challenging for individual students or groups of students, not simply difficult. Advocates contend that appropriately rigorous learning experiences motivate students to learn more and learn it more deeply, while also giving them a sense of personal accomplishment when they overcome a learning challenge—whereas lessons that are simply “hard” will more likely lead to disengagement, frustration, and discouragement.

@http://www.buffalodiocese.org/Education/DepartmentofCatholicSchools/Curriculum/ELA.aspx __Tools for Promoting Active, In-Depth Learning__ Silver, Strong and Perini
 * ** Strategies- ** Add one new strategy to at least one lesson, enter on planbook.com, correlate to Thoughtful Ed Framework 5-9.For example – Preparing Students for New Learning #5 – Activating Prior Knowledge – Context Connections, Associations, K-W-L, Four Thought, Think of a Time, Hooks and Bridges


 * Integrate Technology!!!!**

> move on from memorization questions...use higher level questions. – look at the assessments in the modules. Implement some of the questions
 * **Time of Instruction** – increase length of time on ELA and Math – integrate ELA and Math in Science, SS, Spanish, Art, Music, PE and Technology
 * **Assessments** - Upgrade assessments,More rigorous assessments


 * How do we show we are using data to guide instruction?
 * **Identify the standards where we have a gap. Start with a new strategy whenever you address that standard.**


 * Collaborate!!**

Strategy 3-2-1 Check for Understanding --asking you to synthesize information - higher level thinking 3 Things I learned 2 Questions that I have 1 main idea
 * __**Closure**__