SAISD AVID WICOR Wednesday
Sharing WICOR Ideas and Celebrating SAISD AVID
November 13, 2019
AVID Strategy of the Month: Helping Trios
Lanier AVID
Harris AVID
YWLA AVID: Ms. Azimi
Davis AVID
AVID Excel Professional Learning
Brackenridge AVID
Bowden AVID: Ms. Barrera
Travis AVID
Jefferson AVID: Ms. Bush
Burbank AVID: Mr. Sandoval
Ideas for AVID Educators on Facebook
AVID Strategy of the Month: Helping Trios
Helping Trios
Students will develop active listening and speaking skills, and will learn how to provide and receive feedback. Click the flyer for more information.
Lanier AVID: Team Building
Minefield
Teams focused on verbal communication to instruct their friends across the minefield.
Find the Leader
The leader focused on non-verbal communication to instruct the group on the motion, while the person in the center tried to guess who the leader was.
Circle Debrief
The focus of team building was verbal and non-verbal communication. Reflection and Debrief after team building is crucial to understanding the why behind team building.
Harris AVID: Philosophical Chairs
Quickwrite
Students will engage in their first philosophical chairs, their quickwrite highlights the importance of respecting other’s opinions.
Brainstorm Graphic Organizer
Students brainstormed ideas on agreeing and disagreeing with the central statement.
Philosophical Chairs
Students engaged in a philosophical chairs: “Social media does more harm than good for middle school students.”
YWLA AVID: Ms. Azimi
Agendas
Grade Reflection and Goal Setting
Creating a Mock Test
Students must review their notes from their core subjects and use Costa’s to create a mock test that a peer will take.
Davis AVID
AVID Binder Cover
Students created their binder covers that showcased their identity.
Logic Brain Teaser
Students “stretched their brains” by working as a class to solve a logic brain teaser.
Time Management
Students are keeping track of their time with a week and month at a glance calendars.
AVID Excel Professional Learning
Building an AVID Excel Community
Bell Work
AVID Excel Team
Physical and Philosophical Environment
Brainstorming and comparing the top characteristics of what an AVID Excel class looks, feels, and sounds like.
Brackenridge AVID
First Nine Weeks One Pagers
Students reflected on the all the components they covered in the first nine weeks
Stations: College Ready The Game
Stations: Rubric Writing
Bowden AVID: Mrs. Barrera
College Knowledge Competiton
Career One Pagers
Class Mantra
Mrs. Barrera says this with every students as they walk out the door.
Travis AVID
Non-Math TRFs
The Tutorial Leaders practiced Non-Math TRFs as part of their training and displayed the examples in the hallways
Tutorials in Action
Senior Affirmations
Jefferson AVID: Ms. Bush
Video Notes
Students created a two column graphic organizer to notate observations and responses to a video about “screen addition in China.”
WICOR Partners
Students met with their C partners to share their video observations.
Stand and Deliver
In preparation for their philosophical chairs, each group leader shared their summary.
Burbank AVID: Mr. Sandoval
College Essay Project
Students are preparing their resumes, college essays, cover letters, and recommendation letters for their mock college interviews.
Assignment Logs
Each student keeps track of their assignments and has a resource location in the room.
Me, Personally
In order to write a college essay, we must first explore who we are and learn how to write about ourselves.
Ideas from AVID Educators on Facebook
Flip It
Checking binders and agendas, flip a coin. "Heads" agendas will be graded. "Tails" binders will be graded.
"Submit" Party
Everyone pressed submit on their college applications at the same moment. How are you celebrating applying to college?
College Tissue Box
Tissue season is upon us. This is a great way to share college knowledge with different classes. Great holiday gifts for teachers.
SAISD AVID
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Location: San Antonio, TX, USA
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