AVID Facts
We complete this part of the TRF the day before tutorials.
What is pre-work inquiry?
It's the day of the week that we review focused notes.
What is Friday?
It's your main course of study that must be declared during college.
What is a major?
This is the 2 primary jobs of tutorial group members during a tutorial
What is ask questions and take notes?
This part of the TRF is used to revisit useful aspects of the tutorial and discuss what we learned and how we learned it.
What is the reflection?
The C in WICOR
What is collaboration?
The name of the community college that has campuses in Virginia Beach, Norfolk, and Chesapeake.
What is Tidewater Community College?
It's the year in which AVID was started, which is when The Empire Strikes Back came out, Ronald Reagan was elected president, and Mrs. Wilson was born.
What is 1980?
The R in WICOR.
What is reading?
Cornell Notes are now known by something different as they can come in any format.
What are Focused Notes?
The saying on the logo for AVID.
What is proven achievement, lifelong advantage.
It's when a presenter discusses the initial question, vocab, how far they got, and their point of confusion
What is the 60-second speech?
The first thing we do when marking the text.
What is numbering the paragraphs?
The percentage of AVID students in who are college-ready by the end of their senior year
What is 92%? give or take 2
The names of two tutors from our class.
Ms. K. Mr. McGrath, Ms. Silvers, Ms. McCants, Ms. Kuffour, Ms. Richardson...
It is the ideal ratio of students to tutors according to the national AVID center.
What is 7:1
It's the total amount of points awarded weekly for focused note checks.
What is 40?
This college is where Walter Pauk first invented the note-taking system in the 1920s.
What Cornell University?