Lesson Content & Rigor: Is it Grade Appropriate
Lesson Content & Rigor: Is it Grade Appropriate As I watched my almost two year old daughter singing along to Barney and Friends (video is below), I realized that I could use this song in my high school math class. What?! Wait, did I just say that I could use a video that my daughter is watching in a classroom with kids that are about eight times her ages. Students are being taught many lessons they already know because as educators we "think" that they don't know the material. At time this is true, but shouldn't we as educators want to challenge our students to keep up with the correct grade level content and rigor? Yes, we should. So, then why are we teaching students to name shapes in a high school geometry class? Barny and Friends are currently teaching this to my daughter thirteen years before she will be asked in high school to regurgitate this information. Educators can fix the process of re-teaching already learned ...