AVIDizing your LMC
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AVIDizing your LMC Office of Digital Learning Professional Development August 19, 2015 Created by Nicole Cathirell
Warm up! • Quickwrite: (3min.) • What do you know about AVID? • How has AVID supported your school and its students? • Pair share (1min) • Share Whole Group (1min)
WICOR=AVID’s curriculum • W-Writing • I-Inquiry • C-Collaboration • O-Organization • R-Reading
Chalk Talk Activity • Using poster paper, group members will silently write or draw ways the LMC and/or Media Specialist can support each pillar of WICOR. • Members can comment on an idea that’s posted or write a new idea! • Groups will rotate when the music stops playing. Take your marker with you to the next poster.
Writing • Incorporate Quickwrites into your LMC lessons. • Post the Writing Process in your LMC. • Offer to review/edit college admissions essays. • Provide resources on tips for becoming a better writer. • Teach a writers workshop during lunch or after school.
Inquiry • Maker Spaces (lunch, afterschool, or club?) • Socratic Seminar (lunches/club) • Costa’s Level of Questioning Word Wall • SAT word wall
Collaboration • Maker Spaces • AVID Tutorial • Host tutorials in your LMC; have tables set up with white boards. Have tutorial supplies ready such as tutorial request forms, calculators, textbooks, and the tutorial method poster.
Organization • AVID essentials space such as Cornell Note sheets, TRFs, Learning Logs, Socratic Seminar Articles, or any documenst/supplies that are pertininet to your school’s AVID program. • Binder Check Station (Binder ER) • This space may have hole punchers, paper reinforcers, dividers, pencil sharpeners.
Reading • Post suggested book readings for… • Literary experience • SAT/ACT practice • Study tips • Organization tips • Test-taking tips
College Corner • Hang up college pennants in your library…as many as you can get! • Display college pamphlets or brochures. • Post deadlines for SAT, FAFSA, FASTWeb • College Speed Dating Lesson plan (forthcoming)
College ReadinessPosters Achieverhouse.com Under: College readiness products $15.99
Have you Considered?… • Mentoring a struggling AVID student. • Co-teaching with an AVID Elective teacher. • Joining the AVID Site Team.
Reflection • 1. Write yourself a pick me up note, reminding you how energized you feel about implementing AVID in your LMC. Remind yourself what it is you wanted to implement and how is it going? • 2. Place your letter in the envelop and put your First and Last Name on it and your school name. • Mrs. Cathirell will mail them to you