Instruction

Trainings

AVID site team members have become a dynamic leaders in helping our school meet the common core expectations that involve question-asking instruction. Teachers were trained at site trainings, and have begun to independently seek further training and district and outside sources.

--AVID teachers have provided several opportunities for instruction and training on these topics such as Cornell Notes, Harkness Discussions and Socratic Seminars, and one-pagers. (1.1.3, 1.1.5, 1.1.8)

Classroom Practice

--We invited Kari Penny, the district coordinator, to provide a drop-in training day to demonstrate a variety of strategies to staff (the Golden Mistake, chalkwalk, one pagers, etc...) (1.1.4, 1.1.8)

--Collaboration is almost universally utilized on a regular basis. (1.1.8, 1.1.11)

--AVID students engage in explicit question asking tutorials twice a week. (1.1.4)

--Ensuring that classroom instruction and activities use elements of WICOR is a goal that is implicit in the higher level thinking skills focus that PDHS has. The implementation of Common Core has also included the implicit elements of WICOR. AVID students and students of site team members are instructed in AVID Organizational strategies for binders, calendars/agendas, etc. However, this is not systematically instructed or required. (1.1.12 1.1.2)