AVID Facts
TRF's
Tutorials
Binders
Cornell Notes
100
It's what AVID stands for...
What is Advancement Via Individual Determination?
100
TRF stands for this...
What is Tutorial Request Form?
100
These are the 3 primary goals of all tutorial group members during a tutorial...
What is ask questions, not give answers, and take 3-column notes?
100
It's the day of the week that binders, agendas, and notes are checked...
What is Monday?
100
This is a question that refers to the standard and/or objective being taught by a teacher during class...
What is the essential question?
200
SLANT stands for this...
What is...Sit Up Straight, Look at the Teacher or Lean Forward, Ask Questions, Nod Your Head, and Take Notes or Talk to the Teacher?
200
IQ stands for the this...
What is the Initial Question?
200
Before starting the tutorial, it's when a presenter discusses the initial question, vocab, how far they got, and their point of confusion...
What is the 30-second speech?
200
According to the "Curve of Forgetting," this is the minimum number of revisits to your Cornell Notes that are recommended by your teacher...
What is 5?
200
This college is where Walter Pauk first invented the note-taking system in the 1920s...
What is Cornell University?
300
It was in this "Golden State" where AVID was started...
What is California?
300
POC stands for this...
What is point of confusion?
300
These are always needed at every tutorial and are worth 1 point...
What are resources?
300
It is the minimum width of an acceptable AVID binder...
What is 2"?
300
It's a method of revisiting your Cornell Notes by covering the notes part and quizzing yourself with the questions column...
What is the fold-over method?
400
It's the year in which AVID was started...which is when the movie "The Empire Strikes Back" came out, when Ronald Reagan was elected president, and when Mr. Beresford was in the 5th grade...
What is 1980?
400
This part of the TRF is worth the most points...
What is the pre-work inquiry?
400
Students can earn up to 2 points doing this by participating in tutorials...
What is collaborative inquiry?
400
The sum of all points on our current weekly binder/agenda/note checks...
What is 100?
400
This technique during note taking is defined by numbering your notes and also by skipping lines and/or drawing lines...
What is chunking?
500
The percentage of AVID students in California who are college-ready by the end of their senior year...
What is 92%?
500
This part of the TRF is used to revisit useful aspects of the tutorial...
What is the reflection?
500
It is the ideal ratio of students to tutors according to the national AVID center...
What is 7:1
500
This is the minimum number of pencils, pens, and highlighters that should be found in a pencil pouch...
What is 2?
500
This refers to the routine of underlining and highlighting notes, circling of key words, drawing asterisks for possible test questions, putting question marks for points of confusion, chunking notes into sections, writing questions for each chunk, and writing summaries...
What is evidence of repetition?