Best Practices Towards Success:

  • Maintain enrollment in college preparatory classes
  • Maintain a notebook with class and text notes for each academic course
  • Maintain assignment sheets for each subject and complete tutorial forms听for all AVID tutorial sessions
  • Take at least one page of notes in every class each day
  • Spend two hours per night on homework and study
  • Maintain satisfactory citizenship and attendance in all classes
  • Complete AVID assignments including writing and speaking tasks
  • Participate in AVID tutorials
  • Take the PSAT/SAT at least once
  • Attend the AVID field trips during and after school
  • Maintain at least a 2.0 grade point average
  • Increase academic rigor by enrolling in and successfully completing at least one Pre-AP/AP or IB class in one or more of the core curriculum areas (English, Math, Social Studies, Science) each year

     

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Writing

  • 鈥婩ocused Notes/Cornell Notes
  • Learning Logs
  • Quickwrites
  • Reflections
  • Process Writing
  • Peer Evaluation
  • Authentic Writing
  • Summaries
Inquiry

  • Skilled Questioning
  • Costa鈥檚 Levels of Thinking
  • Socratic Seminars
  • Tutorials
  • Investigations
  • Guiding/Essential Questions
Collaboration

  • Socratic Seminars
  • Tutorials
  • Philosophical Chairs
  • Group Activities and Projects
  • Peer Editing
  • Sharing
Organization

  • Binders
  • Interactive Notebooks
  • Calendars and Planners
  • Graphic Organizers
  • Focused Notes/Cornell Notes
  • Tutorials and Study Groups
  • Project Planning and SMART Goals
Reading

  • Critical Reading
  • Marking the Text
  • Focused Notes/Cornell Notes
  • Graphic Organizers
  • Vocabulary Building
  • Summaries
  • Reciprocal Teaching

Click to download Student Resources

30 Second Speech Academic Language Script one pager 听Academic Language Scripts in Spanish
听Assignment Log 听AVID Community Service Form 听AVID Freshmen Mentor Commitment Form
听AVID Mandatory Tutorials for probation 听Binder Check off sheet 听Common Abbreviations
听Cornell Note Slip 听Cornell Note Taking ppt 听Cornell Notes Template
听E6-Costa Level of Inquiry - Vocabulary 听Learning Log Questions 听Learning Log
听Marking the Text 听Study Buddy Contract 听Socratic Seminar Guidelines
听TRF blank reflection 听TRF Ex Plus notes 听TRF Think-A-Loud
听Tutorial Expectations 听Tutorial Costas Levels 听Tutorial 10 Steps
听Student Contract from my AVID 听 听