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This section was all about adding rigorous material into the classroom. They define rigor as challenging material but also it is material that helps the students struggle. I think the best way to use this in a classroom is to not use it every day. I agree with the having kids struggle is one of the ways to help them grow and challenge their thinking skills. If you have students that have not fully developed their critical thinking skills, they will struggle. Also, some kids strive from getting things right and they gain their confidence of being correct. In my future classroom I would start the day off with a critical thinking skill that would help bring rigor into the classroom. If I was teaching a math class at the time for fifth graders, the question I might have them answer would be “If you have two houses in front of …show more content…
When the teacher once figures out how the student learns best, they must then figure out how to use how they learn to figure out how to help deepen their critical thinking skills. All students thinking skills are going to be at different levels, but the way you help them get their thinking skills to where you want them at will all depend on how you build up and not pile it all on them at one day. It is like climbing Mount Everest, some people are going to be able to climb the whole mountain in one day, and some will not be able to achieve all that land in one day, so the others will take it day by day and will figure out a plan to do so. This is just how I want to run my classroom, I want everyone to achieve what they can to their best

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