AVID

The AVID College

Readiness System

Advancement

Via Individual

Determination

The AVID College Readiness System

The AVID College Readiness

System

Elementary Secondary AVID for Higher

Education

System Components:

AVID Elementary AVID School wide

AVID Elective AVID for Higher Education

College Ready

Writing to Learn

Inquiry

Collaboration

Organization

Reading to Learn

Teacher Preparation

Initiative

Having teachers and professors sit alongside

each other and vertically align the skills that

students need to be successful has been such a

powerful learning experience Dianne Mata, Ector County ISD

Teacher Preparation

Initiative

AVID

• frameworks

• methodologies

• strategies

education courses

content area courses

teacher candidates’ field experiences

AVID

Teacher

Preparation Initiative

structure

planning

professional

development

support

AVID

Teacher

Preparation Initiative

Teacher Preparation Initiative Campus

Planning Team

Establishes campus goals and objectives in

alignment with AVID’s mission and AHE/TPI

Essentials

AVID

Teacher Preparation

Initiative

Professional Development and Planning

Days:

• four professional development and four

planning days each year

• focused on faculty/staff needs for

embedding AVID frameworks and

methodologies

Summer Institute

TPI

• TPI Campus Teams meet during Site

Team scheduled times

• University faculties, staff and

administration attend secondary and

elementary strands

Teacher Preparation

Initiative

• Faculty/staff with the support of

• AVID TPI personnel develop an

implementation matrix/map for

embedding AVID into education and

related content courses

AVID TPI

Instructional Mapping

Matrices COURSE W I C O R

3352 CONTENT CONNECTIONS-

INTRO

SQ3R

LEVELS OF

QUESTIONS/ANSWERS-

INTRO

PURPOSEFUL

GROUP PROJECTS-

INTRO

Paper bag- intro

GRAPHIC

ORGANIZERS-INTRO

4362 JOURNAL-INTRO

KWL

CRITICAL THINKING

SKILLS-INTRO

STUDY GROUPS-

INTRO

Paper bag- intro

STAR-INTRO

4311 SUMMARY REFLECTIONS-

INTRO

CRITICAL THINKING

SKILLS-DEVELOPED

FOCUS GROUPS-

INTRO

STAR-DEVELOPED

4313 LEARNING LOG--INTRO CROSS-CURRICULAR

CONNECTIONS-INTRO

STUDY BUDDIES-

INTRO

Paper bag-

developed

LEARNING LOG--

INTRO

3322 CONTENT CONNECTIONS-

DEVELOPED

I am poem

SOCRATIC METHODS

ACTIVITIES-INTRO

PURPOSEFUL

GROUP PROJECTS-

DEVELOPED

2/3 column notes-INTRO

THINK ALOUD-INTRO

4317 SUMMARY REFLECTIONS-

DEVELOPED

Think aloud

LEVELS OF

QUESTIONS/ANSWERS-

DEVELOPED

GRAPHIC

ORGANIZERS-

DEVELOPED

4325 LEARNING LOG-

DEVELOPED

3 point paragraph

Marking the Text-intro

CROSS-CURRICULAR

CONNECTIONS-

DEVELOPED

FOCUS GROUPS-

DEVELOPED CORNELL -- intro LEARNING LOG-

DEVELOPED

EFFECTIVE

READING METHODS-

DEVELOPED

Emily Dickinson-

Partings

4324 JOURNAL-DEVELOPED

QUICK WRITE

D-L-I-Q

SOCRATIC METHODS

ACTIVITIES-DEVELOPED

CAT/FISH CAT/FISH

WORD SORT WORD SORT

STUDY BUDDIES-

DEVELOPED

CAROUSEL CAROUSEL

GALLERYWALK GALLERYWALK

2/3 column notes-DEVELOPED STAR

THINK ALOUD-

DEVELOPED

ANTICIPATION GUIDE

D-L-I-Q

Teacher Preparation

Initiative

Universities

University of Texas at Arlington

University of Texas of the Permian Basin

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Minnesota State University at Mankato

Texas A & M University Central Texas

Wiley College

Contact Information

Beth Parker

bparker@avidcenter.org

214-725-2982 (cell)

Eileen Friou

efriou@avidcenter.org

972-591-2516