WICOR is a collection of teaching and learning strategies to guide students in comprehending concepts and articulating ideas at increasingly complex levels.
WICOR strategies support student learning in all classrooms.
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Purpose
To provide resources and examples, which will support teachers to intentionally scaffold student learning through the inclusion of WICOR strategies in lesson planning in order to provide evidence of student mastery as related to the learning objective.
To support teachers to embed WICOR strategies effectively in planned activities in order to maximize student engagement and retention of content.
To provide WICOR strategies to assist teachers to build meaningful and engaging student learning, which reflects rigorous* lesson plans beneficial to every learner.
*AVID defines rigor as using inquiry-based, collaborative strategies to challenge and engage students in content, resulting in increasingly complex levels of understanding.
What is WICOR?
"WICOR is an instructional approach involving both
teachers and students, placing students at the center
and empowering them to take ownership and agency
of their thinking and learning. When educators create
instructional experiences integrated in the rich layers
of WICOR, students are actively engaged with content
through productive struggle, cognitive wrestling and
critical thinking to access rigorous content from a
multitude of perspectives and use it to create new
innovations, challenge old ideas, and positively impact
the world around them.
WICOR involves intentional instructional decision
making designed to provide students opportunities to
demonstrate what they know and can do with rigorous
course content and build skills and behaviors that support college and career readiness. This instructional approach involves a scaffolded process of skill-building, which begins in elementary school and gradually releases to autonomous student demonstration of mastery throughout the K–12 journey. When educators are clear about WHY they are facilitating a strategy in alignment with the learning objective, then students understand why they are engaged in a specific structure and can draw upon the same strategy in a different context.
The WHAT of WICOR includes the specific strategies used in each component: writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization, and reading. The HOW of WICOR is the way those strategies are implemented into the curriculum that encourages more engagement and interaction with one’s own learning to promote WICOR skills."
*AVID Handbook 2021-2022
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Acknowledgements: We would like to thank AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) at www.avid.org; The AVID Educator Group; the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the Brandywine School District; and, every website contained within this Google Site.
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