Organization
This tool helps students keep track of assignments, deadlines, and important dates.
What is an agenda or planner?
This AVID note-taking format uses a cue column, notes section, and summary at the bottom.
What is Cornell Notes?
Working together in pairs or groups to solve problems is called this.
What is collaboration?
This is the degree you typically earn after four years of college.
What is a bachelor's degree?
This skill involves looking for evidence and reasoning before accepting a claim.
What is critical thinking?
Keeping your backpack and binder in this state helps you find materials quickly.
What is organized or tidy?
The main section of Cornell Notes is used for this purpose during class lectures or readings.
What is recording detailed notes or information?
This AVID activity uses a structured format for students to ask and answer questions in groups.
What are Socratic Seminars or Philosophical Chairs?
A short written summary of your academic and extracurricular achievements is called this.
What is a résumé?
Identifying the main idea and supporting details in a reading passage is an example of this.
What is analysis?
This AVID strategy involves separating your binder into labeled sections for each class.
What is using dividers or a sectioned binder?
Summarizing your notes at the end of a page helps with this process.
What is review or retention?
Sharing different perspectives in a group discussion helps develop these skills.
What are communication and listening skills?
This type of high school program allows students to earn college credit before graduation.
What is dual enrollment or Advanced Placement (AP)?
This AVID questioning technique uses higher-level questions to promote deeper understanding.
What is Costa's Levels of Questioning?
This weekly activity helps students review and clean out unnecessary papers from their binders.
What is a binder check or binder clean-out?
Highlighting, underlining, and adding symbols to notes are examples of this.
What is annotating or marking your notes?
This AVID process involves students bringing questions from their classes to work through in small groups with a facilitator.
What are Tutorials or Tutorial Request Forms (TRFs)?
Visiting a college campus before applying is called this.
What is a college tour or campus visit?
Making connections between new information and what you already know is called this.
What is synthesis or making connections?
Color-coding notes and materials is an example of this organizational strategy.
What is visual organization or color-coding?
This advanced note-taking technique uses diagrams or visual maps to organize complex information and show relationships between concepts.
What is concept mapping or mind mapping?
Setting group norms and roles helps ensure this in collaborative work.
What is accountability or effective teamwork?
This type of college application allows students to apply to several schools using one form.
What is the common application?
Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of an argument is an example of this higher-order thinking skill.
What is evaluation or critical evaluation?