AVID Requirements
The instructional method which students are grouped to work together to solve problems or create learning environments that allow opportunities for students to take personal responsibility for their own work
What is Collaboration?
A skill that is explicitly taught to help students to develop a system to increase their organizational skills and planning how to divide your time between specific activities.
What is Time Management?
A technique used to help students have a deeper understanding of how they learn and how they can positively interact with others
What is Self-Reflection?
The study group that practices the 10 step process to gain a deeper knowledge of the material. Includes POC, and 60-second speech
What are Tutorials?
A systematic approach to setting and achieving short-range, mid-range, and long-range goals
What is Goal Setting?
An individual student contract outlining student goals and responsibilities that shall be adhered to throughout the school year
What is the Student Agreement form?
Pre-writing, drafting, revision, editing, and publishing along with peer responses and self-evaluation.
What is the Writing Process?
A format for classroom discussion similar to the debate that focuses on a controversial central statement or topic
What are Philosophical Chairs?
What does the L in SLANT stand for?
What is Lean Forward?
Adding up your G.P.A points and dividing that number by the numbers of classes you have
What is GPA Calculation?
An organizational tool that is required for all AVID students to use, in order to keep documents and papers stored properly.
What is a Binder ?
Development of strategies that encourage connecting to prior knowledge, understanding text structure, and using text processing to increase success and confidence with comprehension skills
What is Critical Thinking?
A format that is followed to foster active learning to support students as they seek a deeper understanding of the text during a class or discussion
What is a Socratic Seminar?
Symbolizes key methodologies of the AVID elective and are the AVID elective standards
What is WICOR?
Financial aid form completed in order to determine your federal aid eligibility which is usually filled out October of your senior year in high school
What is FAFSA?
Building a college-going- culture through field trip opportunities and by identifying college requirements, understanding college vocab, researching various career paths, understanding costs of college.
What is College Readiness?
A three-tier approach to higher-order thinking skills-level one is explicit, level two is implicit, and level three goes beyond what is learned.
What is Costa's Levels of Thinking/Questions?
A method of inquiry developed by Socrates to enable students to think for themselves in order to seek a deeper understanding of complex ideas
What is the Socratic method?
The systematic approach was designed by Dr. Walter Pauk to take notes that require students to annotate and highlight their notes and complete a summary.
What are Cornell Notes?
Folding Cornell notes on the left column, so only questions are visible.
What is the Fold Over Method?
Being able to work in teams, being organized, willing to listen to others' opinions, maintaining good grades.
What is a good Avid Student?
Charting the text, chunking the text, marking the text, and paraphrasing the text
What are Reading Strategies?
Refers to the preferential way the students absorb, process, comprehend and retain information. The different styles are tactile, kinesthetic, auditory, and visual.
What are Learning Styles?
A technique used to enhance student ownership of learning
What is SLANT?
The decrease in the ability of the brain to retain memory over time
What is the Curve of Forgetting?