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"Never let your expectations be limited by what you think

is possible."

Benjamin Bloom

Rigor/Relevance Framework

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Effects of Rigor/Relevance Framework

• Simple, versatile and powerful• Tool for collaboration and reflection• Something new that builds on what

teachers know• Inclusive• Shift focus to student learning• Avoids defending current practice• Framework for selecting strategies and

assessments

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Polling Question #1

Interest in Rigor/Relevance

Polling Question #2

Experience with Rigor/Relevance Framework

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Routes to High Rigor and Relevance

Pinnacle of High R/R

Adaptive Learning

Low R/R Quadrant A - Acquisition Learning

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Ways to Increase Rigor/Relevance• Design Gold Seal Lesson - culminate

w/ performance • Modify existing lesson -

– add high RR performance - adapt Gold Seal Lessons

– change strategies– change assessments

• Interdisciplinary instruction– Integrate academics in CTE and Arts

• Use “D” Moments

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RR Teacher Handbook Second Edition

Key understandings to help teachers apply the Rigor/Relevance Framework in their classrooms

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RRIIGGOORR

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RELEVANCERELEVANCERELEVANCERELEVANCE

HighHighHighHigh

HighHighHighHighLowLowLowLow

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TeacherTeacherWorkWork

StudentStudentThinkThink

StudentStudentThink & Think & WorkWork

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High Rigor/Relevance Performance Task

High Rigor/Relevance Performance Task

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.

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Writing Performance Tasks

A performance task is a description of how a student is expected to demonstrate understanding, knowledge and skills. The task may be a product, performance or extended writing that requires rigorous thinking and relevant application. It is usually written in the third person describing the learning to other educators.

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Performance tasks include; •student work that will be produced or performed•connection to what is important to learn•resources students will be provided or have to acquire•setting where students will complete the work•conditions (often real world) under which the work will be done


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Students will write a letter to the editor of the local newspaper, on the topic of the environment with a specific reference to a local issue or problem. Students will work independently and use school resources. The letter will take a point of view, include summaries of research, cite sources and recommend action.

Conditions

Learning Context

Student Work

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Instructional Planning• Define Focus• Create Performance Task• Create Performance Assessment• Plan Learning Experiences• Sequence the Lesson• Identify Literacy Strategies• Select Strategies• Plan Adaptations

Gold Seal LessonsGold Seal LessonsTeaching as you have always taught, will not improve results

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Gold Seal Lessons• Lesson idea to take student learning to

high rigor and/or relevance (Quadrant B, C, D)

• Part of a unit of instruction• Based on high priority standards• Ends with a student performance• Not a daily lesson, nor a detailed unit

instructional plan

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Gold Seal Lessons

QuadrantD

Lessons

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Sample Gold Seal Lesson

Children’s StoryBooks

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Student Assignme

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Graphic Organizer

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Rubric

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Rubric

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Sources of Gold Seal LessonsPublications•Original K-12 - 360 lessons•New K-8 or 9-12 120 lessons each•Subject specific - 30 lessons•Curriculum Matrix - samplesSuccessful Practices Network•http://www.successfulpractices.org•1800 and growing

http://www.successfulpractices.org/

AssessmentAssessment

What you assess is what you get.

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Rigor/Relevance FrameworkDid Students Get it Right?

RIGOR

RELEVANCE

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RightAnswer

RationalAnswer

RightQuestions

RightProcedure

High

HighLow

Low

Sample Quadrant A Math Question on Pythagorean TheoremFind the missing variable. Include units in the answer.

Sample Quadrant D Math Question on Pythagorean TheoremYou are planning to build a wheel chair ramp. That rises an elevation of .3 meters. If the desired slope of the ramp is 1:16, How many meters long (X) will the ramp be and how far (Y) from the step will it begin?

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Types of Assessment• Multiple Choice• Constructed Response• Extended Response• Process Performance• Product Performance• Portfolio• Interview• Self Reflection


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KNOWLEDGE

A P P L I C A T I O N

Extended ResponseProduct Performance

Primary AssessmentsPrimary AssessmentsRigor/Relevance FrameworkRigor/Relevance Framework

Portfolio Product

PerformanceInterviewSelf Reflection

Process PerformanceProduct Performance

Multiple ChoiceConstructed

Response

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Rubric Types

•Checklist•Holistic•Analytic•Mini-rubrics

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R/R and Assessment• Determine the level of Rigor and

Relevance on state tests.• Develop your tests to parallel state

tests when preparing for them.• Use performance assessment when you

want Quadrant D achievement• Keep level of assessment consistent

with expectation for performance.• Let students know assessment in

advance

Suggestions

Instructional StrategiesInstructional StrategiesThere are no best

teaching strategies, only strategies that

are most appropriate for

expected level of rigor and relevance

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Teach Others/Immediate Use of Learning

Practice By Doing

Discussion Groups

Demonstration

Audiovisual

Reading

LectureAverage Retention Rate After 24 Hours 5%

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-David Sousa p. 95

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Rigor/Relevance FrameworkStrategies

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Compare and ContrastSummarizing

Design a Real World ProductTeach Others

Make, Produce, PerformRole Play

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Instructional Strategies:

How to Teach for Rigor and

Relevance

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Strategies

• Brainstorming

• Cooperative Learning

• Demonstration

• Guided Practice

• Inquiry

• Instructional Technology

• Lecture

• Note-taking/Graphic Organizers

• MemorizationPresentations/ExhibitionsResearch Problem-based learningProject DesignSimulation/Role-playing Socratic SeminarTeacher Questions Work-based Learning

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New Handbook

More Instructional Strategies for Rigor and Relevance

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More Instructional Strategies for Rigor and Relevance

• Artistic Expression • Compare and Contrast • Digital Media

Production • Feedback and

Reflection • Games • Instructional

Technology – Any-time• Instructional

Technology – Real-time• Learning Centers • Logical and

Independent Thinking

• Manipulatives and Models Physical Movement PlayService Learning Storytelling Summarizing Teaching Others Test Preparation Video Writing to Learn

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Selection Selection of of

Strategies Strategies Based on Based on

Rigor/Rigor/Relevance Relevance FrameworFramewor

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Selection Selection of of

Strategies Strategies Based on Based on

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Interdisciplinary Instruction

Interdisciplinary Instruction

There aren’t two worlds -- education and work, there is one world -- life

Willard Wirtz

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Types of Interdisciplinary Instruction

• Teaching the same skills in different context in courses

• Teaching related skills across disciplines

• Joint or connected instruction• New instruction including multiple

disciplines

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Benefits of Interdisciplinary Instruction

• Teacher collaboration• Student involvement• Higher level thinking • Content mastery• Mirrors real world• Less fragmented learning

"The biggest obstacle to interdisciplinary planning is

that people try to do too much at once. What they need to look for are some,

not all, natural overlaps between subjects."

Heidi Hayes Jacob

D-MomentsD-MomentsTeach everyday for

rigor and relevance.

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D-Moments

Short strategies within a daily lesson to increase student

thinking and application into Quadrant D of the R/R

Framework.

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D - Moments• Original Answers• Learning With Peers• Current Events• What If?• Fix It• Google It• How Did that Happen?• Remind Me• Program Your

Television• Can You see it Now?

• Tell Me A StoryQuiz ShowFuture ThinkIn Your Own WordsWhy QuestionsLego LandAt Your ServiceAround YouJustify Your PositionQuick Writes

Polling Question #3

Your Planned Routes to Rigor and Relevance

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