AVID Acronyms
Mrs. Webber
Tutorials
Focused Notes
College
100

Each letter of AVID stands for this?

Advancement Via Individual Determination

100

The state Mrs. Webber was born and raised in

What is New York?

100
Brand NEW TRF's must be submitted these two days by this latest time...

What are Mondays & Wednesdays by 11:59 pm?

100

This is the first step of the focused note-taking process which allows you to use different formats such as Cornell notes, graphic organizers, 2/3 column notes, doodle notes, annotated notes, etc.

What is Taking Notes? 

100

Name of the financial aid form you must fill out to receive money from colleges

What is FAFSA?

200
The meaning of TRF

What is Tutorial Request Form?

200

The university Mrs. Webber received her Bachelor's

What is Stony Brook University?

200

If your tutorial questions is NOT on math, then in the SHOW section this should be seen...

What is a graphic organizer?

200

This is the second step of the note-taking process in which students will highlight, circle, underline, add, reorganize notes.

What is Processing Notes?

200

These are the two names of the college entrance exams colleges look at during the admissions process

What are SATs and ACTs?

300

WICOR stands for this...

What is Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, Reading?

300

Mrs. Webber's maiden name

What is Espinal?

300

Names of our student tutors for this class

P1: Alex, Natasha

P2: Bruna, Maria

P4: Jake, Rachel

P5: Althea, Salome B, Salome C

P6: Kaitlynn, David, Karyna

P7: Julia, Ruth

300

During a tutorial, group members show this to their tutor in order to get points for collaborative inquiry.

What are Focused Notes?

300

You need to declare this when you are in college.  It lets us know which career path you have selected.

What is a Major?

400
FNT stands for this...

What is Focused Note-Taking?

400

The name of Mrs. Webber's two children

What are Violet and Kaden?

400

The name of the second speech given by the presenter when they are summarizing what they have learned from their presentation.

What is 60-Second Synthesis speech?

400

Mrs. Webber grades only these steps of the Focused Note-taking process. For the answer, I want the names of each step, not the #s.

What are:

Step 1 - Taking Notes

Step 2 - Processing Notes

Step 3 - Connecting Thinking

Step 4 - Summaring/Reflecting on Learning

400

These are the four types of degrees you can earn in college....

What are Associates, Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate?

500
SLANT stands for this...

What is Sit up, Lean forward, Ask questions, Nod your head, Talk with your teachers?

500

A) The sport Mrs. Webber currently plays

B) Mrs. Webber's deadlift PR

A) What is Crossfit?

B) What is 300 pounds?

500

Your 60 Second Introduction Speech must include all of this

1. Your Name

2. Tutorial Question

3. Academic Vocabulary

4. What You Know section

5. Explanation of your SHOW/Notes

6. Your POC or Tutorial Question

7. Asking group members "What questions do you have for me today"


500

This is the name of the man who thought of the concept of the Curve of Forgetting (we forget things along a predictable curve and we must repeatedly take steps with our notes in order to remember information)

Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?

500

This report is received after the FAFSA has been processed.  This report summarizes the data in the FAFSA and will let you know your EFC (estimated family contribution).

What is the SAR? (Student Aid Report)

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