Higher-Order Thinking - Increase the Rigor!

Rigor and Relevance:

• Achieving Academic Excellence Through Rigor and Relevance - ICLE
• Teaching for Rigor and Relevance - What, Why, and How
• Strategies for Rigor, Relevance, and Reading for Struggling Students -- Peter Pappas
• Rigor and Relevance 2005 Model Schools.ppt
• Rigor, Relevance, and PBL

Bloom's:

• Bloom's Taxonomy in the Classroom
• The Six Levels of Questioning - Bloom's Posters
• An Analogy - Bloom's and a Pen
• Levels of Bloom's and Google Resources (Courtesy of Kathy Schrock)
• Google Tools to Support Bloom's Revised Taxonomy

Costa's Level of Questioning:

• Costa's Levels Defined and Described

Gold Seal Lessons:

• Creating Gold Seal Lessons

Higher-Order Thinking Tools Online:

• Committed Sardine Blog Link