Welcome to 10 th Grade AVID

1. Welcome to 10th Grade AVID Assignments Due: Syllabus signatures due Friday Binder and Portfolio Materials due Friday Wednesday July 23rd, 2014 Today’s Agenda: AVID Overview/Making the Grade Video Clip & Go Over Syllabus Cornell Notes Power Point Objective: I will learn various skills and strategies that will help me become a more effective students. Essential Question: What skills do students need to develop to become better students?

2. WELCOME TO AVID

3. What does AVID stand for? Advancement Via Individual Determination [L. avidus]: eager for knowledge

4. Research Skills/Papers • Public Speaking • Cornell Notes • Philosophical Chairs • Socratic Seminars • Scholarship Research • Goal Setting • Mission Statements • Self Discovery & Reflection • Tips for Success • Binder Checks Themes in AVID(Grades 9-12) Organization Time Management Money Management College Readiness Tutorials College Exploration Career Exploration The Process of Getting a Job Study Skills Guidance Lessons

5. THINK WIN-WIN Everyone can get what they want. SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND, THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD Listen to people sincerely. SYNERGIZE Work together to achieve more SHARPEN THE SAW Renew yourself regularly 9th Grade Areas of Focus BE PROACTIVE Take responsibility for your life. BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND Define your mission and goals in life. PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST Prioritize, and do the most important things first.

6. Principle 11: Face Your Fears Head-On! Principle 12: Be Willing to Pay the Price Principle 13: Ask! Ask! Ask! Principle 14: Reject Rejection Principle 15: Use Feedback to Fast-Forward Principle 16: Stop Hanging with Turkeys and Soar with Eagles Principle 17: Keep Score of Your Success and Build on It Principle 18: Perform with Persistence by Keeping Your Eyes on the Prize Principle 19: Give Your Best to Be Your Best Principle 20: Start Now-Just Do It! 10th Grade Areas of Focus Principle 1: Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life Principle 2: Believe It's Possible Principle 3: Decide What You Want Principle 4: Be Clear Why You're Here Principle 5: See the Best to Be the Best Principle 6: Unleash the Power of Goal-Setting Principle 7: Release the Brakes Principle 8: See What You Want, Get What You See Principle 9: Act As If Principle 10: Just Lean into It By Jack Canfield and Kent Healy

7. The Mission of AVID “AVID’s mission is to close the achievement gap by preparing all students for college readiness and success in a global society.”

8. AVID Student Profile Average to high test scores 2.0 – 3.5 GPA College potential with support Desire Determination

9. What AVID is NOT A remedial class Study hall

10. Students must meet at least one criteria below: 1st to attend college Historically underserved in college Low income Special circumstance

11. Sample Week in AVID

12. Tutorials

13. Cornell Notes

14. Purpose of AVID Tutorials Create deeper understanding of core curriculum Develop academic skills Reflective learning Encourage leadership skills

15. 10% • 20% • 30% • 50% • 70% • 80% • 90% Of what they READ Of what they HEAR Of what they SEE Of what they SEE, HEAR, and SAY Of what they DISCUSS Of what they DO Of what they SAY as they DO something Students remember…

16. Academic Rigor “Rigorous curriculum is a greater factor in determining college graduation rates than class standing, standardized test scores, or grade point average.” - Clifford Adelman

17. AVID increases the # of Low income students in college Minorities in college Students graduating from college

18. AVID Graduates 97% plan to attend college 66% will enroll in a four-year university 31% will enroll in a two-year college 78% of AVID students are accepted to four-year universities 83% of their parents have less than a four-year degree

19. Completion of Four-Year College Entrance Requirements 76% of all graduating seniors DO NOT meet university requirements 89% of AVID students meet university requirements! Only 34% of students in the United States complete university requirements

20. Nationwide Nationwide 76% of students from affluent backgrounds attend college. Only 4% of community college students transfer to a four-year college or university AVID seniors graduate with an average G.P.A. of 3.1

21. Why AVID works Rigorous curriculum Support Creates a team Provides students with the “hidden curriculum”

22. Grading Binder Check (30%) Tutorial (30%) Projects, Classwork and homework(30%) Portfolio (10%)

23. Expectations Students are expected to demonstrate maturity, responsibility, and respect for others. Anything that interferes with learning, including, but not limited to cell phones, music players, makeup, and food, will be confiscated. Students will participate in college entrance exams such as the PSAT, PLAN (if offered), and SAT.

24. Expectations Hats should be removed when entering the room. Gum, food, and drink are not allowed in class. Cells phones need to be silenced and put away during class time. (See cell phone agreement form)

25. Late work & Extra Credit You are responsible for all material presented in class. Even if you have extra-curricular activities, you are still responsible for completing and turning in assignments when they are due. You will be given until midnight that same day to e-mail the assignment. After that the assignment is half credit off. It is your responsibility to ask for missing assignments and/or to visit http://ww2.chandler.k12.az.us/Page/6840 to download missing assignments. Late work is half credit off. All assignments are due at the beginning of the class period. It is your responsibility to print essays or have assignments ready before the class period begins. If you have a serious extenuating circumstance, speak with me as soon as possible. Waiting until the class period when something is due is not acceptable. Extra credit is rarely offered in AVID if at all.

26. AVID Website http://www.cusd80.com/Page/6840

27. Taking Cornell Notes

28. What do Cornell Notes Look Like?

29. By day 2, if you do not think about or review your notes, you will lose 50%-80% of what you learned. • By day 30, if you do not think about or review your notes, you remember only 2% - 3% of what you learned on day 1. The Curve of Forgetting Source: Counseling Services, Study Skills Program at the University of Waterloo

30. Students who take no notes or some notes retain less than 59% of what was learned. • Students who take and use Cornell Notes as a study tool retain 90%-100% of what was learned. The Value of Cornell Notes

31. Table Talk With your table group, discuss when you should take notes in class. Make a list. Be prepared to share with the class!

32. When to Take Notes The speaker says to take notes The speaker says something you don’t already know The speaker presents using Powerpoint The speaker writes on the board The teacher says, “This will be on the test.”

33. S.T.A.R. Set up your paper Take the notes Apply your thinking to the notes Reflect on Revise and Review your notes.

34. Set Up Your Paper Put a proper heading in the top right corner. Name Class Period Date Save 1/3 of the left hand side of paper for questions by folding or drawing a vertical line. Write the topic of the lecture, passage, etc in the form of an essential question.

35. Set Up Your Paper

36. Take Notes Write notes on the right side of the page Abbreviate words Paraphrase Skip at least 2 lines between each idea Use symbols, pictures, or diagrams

37. Take Notes

38. Within 24 hours of taking notes, review your notes and write questions on the left side of the page. Apply Your Thinking

39. Add a summary to your notes. Answer the essential question as your topic sentence and turn each “chunk” of information into supporting sentences. Reflect on Notes

40. Review notes with a partner and add details that you each missed. Revise Notes v v

41. Look in your textbook and add details from the book to your notes. Revise Notes v v

42. Fold your notes so that the questions show, but the notes do not. Quiz yourself or work with another student to quiz each other. Review Notes

43. You are required to take at least 3 pages of Cornell Notes per class per week. • You may choose any 5 classes to take notes for (no notes are required for P.E.) Cornell Note Requirement

44. Welcome to 10th Grade AVID Assignments Due: Friday, July 25th, 2014 Today’s Agenda: Organize your binder & portfolio Costa’s Levels of Intellectual Functioning (Three Little Pigs & Goldilocks & The Three Bears) Teambuilding Activity (Who Am I) Objective: I will learn various skills and strategies that will help me become a more effective students. Essential Question: What skills do students need to develop to become better students?

45. Organizing Your Binder

46. 2 ½ or 3 inch 3-ring binder with clear cover Required Binder

47. High School/College schedules taped to inside cover • Label both pockets with a permanent marker Inside Cover High School Schedule Per Course Teacher Rm 1 Biology Jobe 09 2 AVID 9 Clarke 16 3 English I Hansen 02 4 P.E Pearcy FLD 5 Art Wilson 17 6 Algebra I Rondeau 13 Fall College Schedule Computers for Beginners Needs Immediate Attention

48. Zipper Pouch • 2 pens, 2 pencils, scientific calculator, • 2 highlighters, USB flash drive (optional) Order of Binder Contents High School Schedule Per Course Teacher Rm 1 Biology Jobe 09 2 AVID 9 Clarke 16 3 English I Hansen 02 4 P.E Pearcy FLD 5 Art Wilson 17 6 Algebra I Rondeau 13 Fall College Schedule Computers for Beginners Needs Immediate Attention

49. School Planner Order of Binder Contents High School Schedule Biology AVID English P.E. Art Spanish School Planner Fall College Schedule Computers for Beginners Needs Immediate Attention

50. Write down due dates for all assignments. Planners