Environment

Teachers create a supportive, student-centered classroom through a focus on relationships and effective lesson planning. 

Standards

Students engage with inquiry questions aligned to grade level standards with exemplar answers to clarify learning goals in each lesson. 

Rigor and Engagement

Students engage in a minimum of three unique AVID WICOR or IB approaches to learning (ATL) activities in each lesson to increase rigor and engagement.

Evaluation

Teachers monitor student work throughout each activity to assess understanding, provide feedback, and allow for corrections. 

Metacognition

Students take an active role in learning in each lesson through processing, summarizing, and reflecting. 

Introduction

• Inquiry question aligned to grade level expectations
• Agenda
• Academic Vocabulary

Instruction

• AVID WICOR Activities/IB approaches to learning
• 10/2 Model
• Scaffolds and differentiated instruction

Wrap-Up

• Summary/Answer the essential question
• Metacognative activities