AVID PROGRAM

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AVID PROGRAM
ADVANCEMENT VIA INDIVIDUAL DETERMINATION
L. avidus eager for knowledge
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AVID Mission

• AVID is designed to increase schoolwide learning
  and performance. The mission of AVID is to ensure
  that ALL students, and most especially the least
  served students who are in the middle
• will succeed in rigorous curriculum
• will complete a rigorous college prep path,
• will enter mainstream activities of the school,
• will increase their enrollment in four-year
  colleges, and
• will become educated and responsible participants
  and leaders in a democratic society.

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Achieving Mission

• Elective Program
• Writing-based curriculum
• Study Skills and Test Prep
• College and Career Exploration
• Tutorial Support
• Motivational Activities
• WICR Strategies Methodologies

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WRITING Prewrite Draft Respond Revise Edit Final
Draft Class Textbook Notes Learning
Logs/Journals
INQUIRY Skilled Questioning Socratic
Seminars Quickwrites/Discussions Critical
Thinking Activities Writing Questions Open-Mindedn
ess Activities
W I C R
COLLABORATION Group Projects Study Groups Jigsaw
Activities Read-Arounds Response/Edit/Revision
Groups Collaborative Activities
READING SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite,
Review) KWL (what I Know, Want to learn,
Learned) Reciprocal Teaching Think-Alouds
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Goal of AVID Tutorial

• Teach students skills needed to work
  collaboratively to solve problems (WICR)
• Empower students to answer own questions by
  posing questions which help them think more
  deeply about what they are learning (WICR)

• Guide students in high-level discussions of
  critical topics as a means of developing
  vocabulary, enhancing discussion skills
  fostering thought processes which enable them to
  succeed in rigorous courses (WICR)
• Reinforce writing skills through review of
  Cornell Notes, learning logs, quick writes, etc.
  (WICR)

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AVID Tutorial Structure

• Completed Tutorial Request Form
• Collaborative Learning
• Reflection

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Inquiry Based Tutoring Learning

• Tutors never give or show the answer
• Tutors ask questions that lead students to learn
  how to find the answers
• Students learn to ask questions that cause them
  to think at deeper levels
• Blooms 6 levels
• Costas 3 levels

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Source of Student Questions

• Homework
• Notes from lecture, textbook, video, etc.
• Test preparation
• Test results
• Reading
• Other assignments

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History of Cornell Notes

• Developed in 1949 at Cornell University by Walter
  Pauk
• Designed in response to frustration over student
  test scores
• Adopted by most major law schools as the
  preferred note taking method

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WHY CORNELL NOTES?

• Designed as a learning tool, not a recording tool
• Act as a study aide, not an abbreviated list of
  information
• Results from AVID data collection show student
  reference to Cornell Notes as key to academic
  success

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Improving Writing

• Learning Logs
• Quick Writes
• Collaborative Pre-writes
• Peer Editing
• Clusters
• Essay Structure
• Graphic Organizers

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Improving Reading

• Time to Read / Pre-read
• SQRQCQ
• Textbook Treasure Hunt
• Think Alouds
• Mark It Up
• Reading Logs
• Reading Diaries

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Effective Collaborative Groups

• Individual accountability
• Heterogeneous groups
• Shared leadership
• Shared responsibility
• Social Skills for task completion
• Tutor facilitation, support, intervention

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Collaborative Group Strategies

• Jigsaws
• Read-Arounds
• Write-Arounds
• Pair Share
• Gallery Walks
• Using White Boards