College/Career Vocab
A four year degree awarded to a student by a college or university.
What is a bachelor's degree?
This is the form that must be completed prior to arriving at class on Tutorial days.
What is a Tutorial Request Form (TRF)?
An educational institution or establishment that offers 2-year degress and certificates, as well as pathways to transfer to 4-year colleges and universities.
What is a community college?
There are five phases involved in this process. It helps students learn and retain information.
What is the focused note-taking process?
This is what the acronym AVID stands for.
What is Advancement Via Individual Determination?
What is a master's degree?
This is when the student presenter shares their initial question, vocabulary and tutorial question with their group.
What is a 60 second speech?
Grants, scholarships, loans, and part-time employment from federal, state, institutional and private sources.
What is financial aid?
This can be used to keep track of important dates, due dates and upcoming assignments.
What is a planner?
These help you keep separate sections in your binder, and can often be color-coded.
What are tab dividers?
This refers to the numerical value of students' final grades in their classes.
What is a GPA?
This is the question the student arrives at after reviewing all notes and materials related to their initial question.
What is the point of confusion?
A postsecondary institution that provides practical, specialized, and often hands-on training in a specific trade or profession.
What is a technical college?
This is a type of goal that is specific and measurable, thus making it more likely that you will follow through with completing this goal.
What is a SMART goal?
This should always go at the top of my notes and it helps me to know what I am taking notes about and what I should learn from the lesson.
What is an essential question?
This is an academic area a student elects to specialize in, particularly in a 4-year college or university.
What is a major?
This is the specific title of the assignment, quiz, test or notes that your used to formulate your initial question.
What is your source?
These are courses that offer college-level coursework in high schools. To earn college credit, students can take an end-of-the-year exam which covers all of the course material.
What are AP courses?
This is a strategy that can be used when reading a rigorous text, that helps you comprehend what you are reading and formulate questions about the information.
What is annotating or marking a text?
These are level 1, 2 and 3 questions.
What are Costa's levels of questioning?
The amount colleges charge for each hour of class time.
What is tuition?
This is the discussion protocol that tutorial group members use to help the student presenter understand their point of confusion.
What is socratic questioning.
A permanent record of all the classes you take and grades you earn while in high school or college.
What is a transcript?
This activity takes an article or task and breaks it up into groups. Each group member is responsible for their own part, then collaborates with others to share what they learned so everyone has all the information.
What is a jigsaw?
This explains that our brains will retain more of what we learn if we revisit the information repeatedly over time.
What is the Curve of Forgetting?