Avid about Teaching

Are your elective students struggling with filling in a TRF on their own? Try providing this resource to help them navigate the steps and parts of the NEW 2020 TRF on their own. This guide includes REAL student work to help show them how to give them an example of how to show their thinking. I demonstrate how to complete TRFs in class, but my first-year college readiness elective students still struggle with how to complete all the steps on their own. I created this guide to give some suggestio

I hope you find my sub plan activities quick, easy, and helpful. They are intended to be done completely digital. Therefore, in an emergency, your coworkers don’t have to scramble to find your copies or make copies of activities. While the Choice Board should take my 7th/8th graders a full 45 minutes (if not more) to complete, the AVID Virtual College Tour may not take that long. I would recommend supplementing with an article and asking students to write a summary.

I created this all DIGITAL note taking presentation for my college readiness elective students. Topics included: the curve of forgetting, focused note taking process, and Costa's levels of thinking. Students will take notes through PearDeck. PearDeck drawing slides are for students to mark the text PearDeck text slides are for students to take notes by answering the question highlighted in GREEN. When you have finished the PearDeck session, make sure you PUBLISH STUDENT TAKEAWAYS. This will giv

As an AVID 7 and 8 teacher, I love to introduce students to Historically Black Colleges and Universities throughout the year, but especially for Black History month. This assignment I have created takes me about 2-4 30 minute class times to complete. I show students some videos about HBCUs, they do some research with the document, then create their one pager on paper. You could allow them to create with a variety of digital tools as well. I am going to experiment with my free Canva pro account (

There are a lot of tutorial steps and ways to analyze the process, and I found a way to simplify them. I took portions from the Tutorial Scripting Form, ideas from the TRF reflection, and parts of a debrief and put them together. With only 45 minutes for tutorials, I had to rush to give as much time as possible to tutorials and I found this form more beneficial than the tutorial reflection questions or having students write a paragraph. The tutors also appreciate the form because it allows them

When I say this is all in one, it is all in one! I have included all of my resources from a teacher outline to student samples to event support. This resource will allow you to plan and lead your students to create their own college fair. Open this event to the community and put your students and their wonderful work on showcase. Allow all students to gain opportunity knowledge about college and all the great things it has to offer. There is minimal grading! Students create slides with their inf

Get all of the digital journals together. Digital Journal for Quarter 4 will be added to the bundle in March 2022. I will update this product and you will get it then.

A way to check students' organization during distance learning. This digital "binder check" includes sections for planner organization, physical organization (their home work space), digital organization (their Google Drive or eBinder), and focused note taking. The form encourages self-assessment and reflection as well as individuality. Students can list the planner tool they use if they don't use a physical planner. Instructions are also included for students to insert an image directly in Goog

This is for the My Family Story badge. I already chose some great options that flow together for you. My troop did this around out Valentine's Day party. We did meeting 2 as our potluck and Valentine's celebration of our family love. There is homework for the girls to do to prepare for the potluck and meeting 2. Make sure you involve the parents at the end of meeting 1.

Use these Google Slides to help students realize their missteps when communicating with teachers. This presentation can be used with PearDeck to allow students to respond independently when drafting new versions of the 'bad emails.' All examples are real examples of how students have emailed teachers. Reflection is built in to have students think about how and why they should communicate professionally with their teachers.

What's a real life skill that you need for college that no one ever teaches you? Creating your schedule in college! While some colleges and universities have excellent faculty advisors, most students aren't aware of the complexity that comes with registering for college courses. This project also shows students the demands of being a college athlete. I have gathered information from division 1 and division 3 athletes to include in this project. This project is my students' favorite every year.

Wondering how you are going to run digital tutorials? This is my solution. I hope it helps you. 1. Students will complete a digital TRF and submit it in Google Classroom for a grade. 2. In online breakout rooms they will use this binder to be able to help each other. While the tutor is grading the TRFs in Google Classroom, they will each post their initial question, critical thinking, and Tutorial question (updated TRF now says this instead of POC) in the Tutorial Binder. In addition to fillin

This College Research Project asks students to pick 5 topics (from a given list or they may create their own) to research about a college. This is a very flexible project and you can tighten or loosen requirements as you see fit. I allow them work with a partner as an option. I also DO NOT grade the final product nor presentation. I DO grade the research, planning, and reflections. If you are an AVID teacher, I also used the Backwards Planning Map to help students with this project (which was th

I started with the wonderful resource from The SuperHERO teacher ( Growth Mindset Journal), but I need more items to align with my elective curriculum for AVID. You can see samples of her slides and decide to buy her file or create your own daily Quick Write or journaling prompts. The Quarter 3 (Q3) Journal includes: Table of ContentsContinuing from Q2 > Learning log to summarize quarter 2Continuing from Q2 > Accountability partnersGoal SettingInterim GPA calculatingInterim goal reflection

I started with the wonderful resource from The SuperHERO teacher ( Growth Mindset Journal), but I need more items to align with my elective curriculum for AVID. You can see samples of her slides and decide to buy her file or create your own daily Quick Write or journaling prompts. The Quarter 2 (Q2) Journal includes: Table of ContentsNEW! Learning log to summarize quarter 1NEW! Accountability partnersGoal SettingInterim GPA calculatingInterim goal reflectionQuarter 2 Report Card GPA calculationQ

Do you have a ton of college brochures and pamphlets that you get when you request free pennants? Instead of just displaying them, have your students read them and interact with this very authentic text. This is a digital worksheet that is intended for students to complete independently. You can hand them a brochure (or set of brochures from one college) and have them read and complete this assignment. You need to have enough college brochures for every student in your class to have one for thi

Recruitment time? I have all the resources you need! If you are a Google Suite school, then this will make your life easier! In this Google Slide you will be able to effortlessly share it with the students who want to apply for an elective like AVID. Instead of students submitting a Google Form, MS word document, or PDF, they can simply SHARE the file with you! This helps elementary and middle school students take their time to complete their application. With a Google Form, students cannot stop

Recruitment time? I have all the resources you need! If you are a Google Suite school, then this will make your life easier! In this Google Slide you will be able to effortlessly share it with the teachers you need to complete student recommendations. Instead of teachers submitting multiple Google Forms, MS word documents, or PDFs, they can simply create one slide for each student, then submit ONE file! In order to share the information with the admissions panel or AVID site team when making acc

I started with the wonderful resource from The SuperHERO teacher ( Growth Mindset Journal), but I need more items to align with my elective curriculum for AVID. You can see samples of her slides and decide to buy her file or create your own daily Quick Write or journaling prompts. The Quarter 1 (Q1) Journal includes: Table of ContentsGoal SettingInterim GPA calculatingInterim goal reflectionQuarter 1 Report Card GPA calculationQuarter 1 goal reflectionI hope this journal is helpful for you and

Are you students struggling to keep up with all the different things we do in a college readiness elective? I know mine were. Between focused note taking, tutorials, and organization checks, they were stretched a mile wide and only understanding an inch deep. I created this quick Strategy Bootcamp to help them remember WHY we are doing what we do in the elective. This lesson was designed to take about 30 minutes in an online only environment. You can easily add more thoughtful slides to get stud