Presentation on rigor delivered at Golden Apple Fourth Summer Elmhurst

1. Rigor – What is it and why do people
keep talking about it?
PJ Caposey
Assistant Superintendent/
Principal
Meridian 223
@principalpc

2. GA Scholars

3. Tell me about what has
changed in education over
the past 4 years?

4. President Obama
Arne Duncan
Secretary of Education
RTT
CCSS

5. Gov. Quinn
Stand For Children Illinois
Jonah Edelman
SB 7 & HB 315

7. Policy-makers think
that teachers have not made school
‘hard’ enough for kids

9. Can you define
rigor in terms of
your future
professional
practice?

11. Name some Educational
buzzwords, fads, etc.
RtI
NCLB
Literacy
PLCs
ESL
RTT
CCSS

12. Will Rigor
fade away
like so many
other
educational
fads and
trends? Why
or why not?

13. What is curriculum?

15. TIME FOR AN ACTIVITY
Split into 6 groups - - - -

16. 2 minute lesson-plan on social media in the
classroom – 10 minutes of planning

17. • Group 1 – Provide students factual knowledge about
social media in the classroom
• Group 2 – Provide students understanding social
media in the classroom
• Group 3 – Provide students a chance to apply social
media in the classroom
• Group 4 – Provide students a chance to analyze the
use of social media in the classroom
• Group 5 – Provide students a chance evaluate
effectiveness of social media in the classroom
• Group 6 – Provide students a chance to create a plan
of deployment for social media in the classroom

18. Reflective Questions
• Is creating any level of lesson plan more difficult than
the other?
• Which level (generally) has the teacher do the most
work? The student?
• Think back to your favorite class in elementary, middle
or high school – what made it your favorite? Were you
just memorizing stuff?
• If you are facilitating learning can you do all of the
other stuff associated with good instruction more
easily or with more difficulty (differentiation, provide
feedback, ask higher level questions, engage students,
etc.)

19. ACTIVITY
TWO

20. • Create outcome statements about Golden
Apple – do you know what they are?
• Let’s work together to create outcome
statements for each level of Bloom’s about
Golden Apple
– Knowledge
– Understand
– Apply
– Analyze
– Evaluate
– Synthesize