This new edition of RCD shares updates and enhancements to the process, gained through nearly a decade of learnings from myriad schools. Updates and new additions include:.
It provides the framework for teacher creativity, innovation, and collaboration. This is not a cookie-cutter approach but rather a step-by-step process that gives teachers the professional autonomy to positively impact the academic lives of their students.
A rigorous curriculum must remain flexible, adaptable to the diverse and continuously changing learning needs of all the students it serves. By deliberately planning and creating engaging classroom learning experiences , the authors of a rigorous curriculum can provide the means for both new and experienced teachers to motivate reluctant, insecure learners as well as those students who have disengaged from learning out of disinterest or outright boredom.
One of the ways rigorous curriculum design can help teachers address these challenges is by offering students precise learning targets, meaningful and relevant lessons and activities, and multiple opportunities to succeed. Below is a graphic of the system used to create the Rigorous Curriculum Design Units. It represents the system used to create the units.
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With the right questions and prompts, even more esoteric content can begin to feel relevant. There is a tendency to reduce complex material to recall questions. With more challenging texts, students require more time to establish a basic understanding of the material, and this leaves less time for other more engaging cognitive activities like debate, analysis, evaluation, and application. Unfortunately, when we take this approach, students walk away feeling like the material has little meaning to them.
Though students do need to comprehend the material before they can move on to analysis or application of concepts, stopping learning before students have had an opportunity to develop and articulate their own ideas spoils the greater benefit of reading complex texts. Getting beyond recall requires either improving the supports necessary to establish comprehension or spending more time on a given text. If a text is truly worthwhile as many complex texts with rich ideas are , then they merit the time it takes to truly understand them and use their insights to further learning.
Few of us desire to pursue cognitively challenging tasks. It is rarely the choice of students to read something that is difficult for them. That being said, choice is a powerful motivator , and there are ways to integrate it into the study of rigorous texts. While students may not have the choice of what texts they are reading, they can choose which character to assess for a presentation or which idea to critique in their editorial.
Perhaps they can choose which side they prefer to take in a debate. There are countless ways to give students the opportunity to pursue what interests them in the text.
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