Corippo’s Voice In My Head – Rigor
Rigor came up in a conversation yesterday. Rigor is one of those words I have a hard time getting a solid grip on during a conversation. For some reason, my mental image of rigor in education has always been a bit slippery. My early experiences in education originally led me to frame rigor as meaning “More Harder” (i.e. let’s do more work and make it more difficult work too) which doesn’t square with what I now think people mean when they say more rigor. Having to actively overcome my ingrained misconception every time I hear the word is probably what the fuzzy mental construct thing is all about. So of course after percolating on the conversation last night, I woke up this morning with this on my mind:
Reps = Mastery
Project Based Learning = Creativity, Collaboration and Critical Thinking
Presenting = Communication
Blogging = Authentic Audience
Minecraft = Problem Solving
All of the Above Better and Faster = Rigor
I’d like to lock this in my brain so that it triggers when I hear the word rigor but instead when I think of the above, I go straight to, “this is what good instruction should look like”. I guess that’s what I get from hanging around #obiwancorippo too much…
What’s your definition of Rigor?
There is no box 
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