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Participants will learn to effectively use the “Critical Thinking” and “General Steps” sections of the TRF, specifically in support of non-maths initial questions, so that they can guide their students through the understanding and use of the boxes with questions other than maths. The intended audience for this module is AVID Elective Teachers and AVID Students.
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Participants will understand how the TAG Reflection can be used to help students identify academic needs and learn how to use the components of the TAG Reflection. Teachers will also make connections to the US AVID Elective Standards and be able to consider how those standards correlate to the academic expectations for Australian students, Weeks at a Glance, and the US Certification Self-Study as an example of how that process works there and how it can be modified to measure the success of AVID at your site. The intended audience for this module is AVID Elective Teachers.
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Participants will identify the differences between summary and reflection and how to coach students to higher-level reflections. The intended audience for this module is AVID Elective Teachers.
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Participants will learn how to implement critical reading and writing strategies to support AVID’s Essential 6. Participants will also learn how to engage with students in a reading lesson using the Critical Reading Process and extend reading and writing into opportunities for collaboration supporting AVID’s Essential 7. The intended audience for this module is AVID Site Team Members and core-content teachers.
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Participants will visit an AVID classroom and classrooms of content area teachers using AVID strategies and engage in a coaching discussion on the implementation of AVID methodologies and strategies observed in the classroom. The intended audience for this module is AVID Site Coordinators, AVID Elective Teachers, Content Area Teachers, and AVID Administrators.
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Participants will learn the similarities and differences between literacy across the content areas, implement critical reading strategies to support content-specific literacy, and develop a plan for teaching and reinforcing effective reading strategies in addition to content. The intended audience for this module is secondary content area teachers.
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Participants will learn to troubleshoot current lesson planning barriers inside the AVID elective class and select appropriate supports to positively inform lesson planning in the AVID elective classroom in order to deliver effective, rigorous instruction. The intended audience for this module is AVID elective teachers.
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Participants will learn how to incorporate text-dependent questions as a part of the Critical Reading Process, craft text dependent questions in order to help students to access complex texts in their content areas, implement a system to assess whether or not a question is text-dependent, and reflect on how text-dependent questions support university and work readiness. The intended audience for this module is secondary content area teachers.
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Participants will learn how to provide students with skills, strategies and opportunities to navigate and practice the on-demand/timed writing experience to develop university readiness. The intended audience for this module is AVID elective teachers and schoolwide secondary teachers.
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Participants will learn to implement scaffolded Socratic seminars in order to increase students’ level of academic literacy, content knowledge, and university readiness and develop an action plan for Socratic seminar implementation. The intended audience for this module is AVID elective teachers and schoolwide secondary teachers. This module requires a minimum of three hours to complete.
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Participants will learn how to incorporate text-dependent questions as a part of the Critical Reading Process, craft textdependent questions in order to help students to access complex texts in their content areas, implement a system to assess whether or not a question is text-dependent, and reflect on how text-dependent questions support university and work readiness. The intended audience for this module is secondary content area teachers.
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Participants will learn how to provide students with skills, strategies and opportunities to navigate and practice the ondemand/timed writing experience to develop university readiness. The intended audience for this module is AVID elective teachers and schoolwide secondary teachers.
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Participants will learn to implement scaffolded Socratic seminars in order to increase students’ level of academic literacy, content knowledge, and university readiness and develop an action plan for Socratic seminar implementation. The intended audience for this module is AVID elective teachers and schoolwide secondary teachers. This module requires a minimum of three hours to complete.
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Participants will learn the similarities and differences between cognitive organisation (organisation of thought) and operational organisation (organisation of time) in order to prepare their students effectively for both. Various graphic organisers will be used to support each process, as participants plan effective cognitive structures across curriculum areas for greater cognitive organizational development. The intended audience for this module is AVID elective teachers and schoolwidesecondary teachers.
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This workshop is designed to support sites in defining what a teacher leader is and their role in AVID implementation. The workshop will examine teacher leadership through the Site Team Plan to identify leadership traits and characteristics that have led to the success of AVID, as well as to identify gaps in leadership that will need to be improved to deepen AVID implementation. The intended audience for this module is AVID Site Coordinators, AVID Elective Teachers, AVID Site Team members, Content Area Teachers, and AVID Administrators.
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This workshop is an exploration of Carol Dweck’s theory of mindsets. Participants will explore the difference between the fixed and growth mindset and how to use that understanding to help students be more successful in any learning task. A model for coaching students to move from the fixed to the growth mindset will also be practiced. The intended audience for this module is AVID Elective Teachers, Content Area Teachers, and Administrators.
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Do you want to maximize the benefits of sending staff to Winter and Summer Institutes? Do you want to accelerate your schoolwide access to AVID practices? In this workshop, participants will learn how to teach adults using AVID Adult Learning Practices so they can utilize meetings and school development days to re-teach AVID strategies to staff throughout the year. These skills will further support schools as they build their professional learning communities and work to implement AVID schoolwide. The intended audience for this module is AVID elective Teachers, Site Team Members, Teacher Leaders, Coaches, and Administrators.
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This workshop further explores various ways students utilise Focused Note-Taking strategies in Maths and analyses everyday practices, including various collaborative and organisational practices that can be implemented on a variety of levels. The intended audience for this module is teachers of mathematics and teaching/learning coaches.
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This workshop introduces three theories of scaffolding: Vygotsky (1978) and his Zone of Proximal Development; Mariani (1997) High Challenge, High Support; and Hammond & Gibbons (2005) Designed in and Contingent Support. Participants will learn how to apply the three theories of scaffolding to their content area and will workshop current lessons to reconsider how they are scaffolded to maximize student learning opportunities. The intended audience for this module is teachers of any subject area.
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This module is designed to allow participants to explore how AVID can serve as the foundation for organisational improvement and provide sites with a structure and resources to strengthen the implementation of other initiatives on their campuses. Overall, the goal of the training is to assist participants in shifting their thinking and that of others in moving AVID from being “another thing” on their organisational plate to AVID becoming the plate itself. Participants will explore the difference between AVID as a program and a system, using that initial exploration as a jumping off point into analysing the AVID domains as defined within the AVID certification instruments: Instruction, Systems, Leadership and Culture. Finally, participants will explore how to align AVID with other state/regional or departmental school improvement initiatives. The intended audience for this module is primary and secondary teachers and leaders.
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Participants will develop, implement, and monitor schoolwide organisational systems in order to increase student success and college readiness.
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Participants will provide purposeful input and output activities to be organized in interactive notebooks to increase student metacognition. Participants will integrate interactive notebooks into daily lessons so that students have multiple opportunities to interact with and process content to develop college-ready organizational skills.
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This session is designed to utilise the continuous improvement cycle to change systems and strengthen AVID implementation. Participants will become familiar with the continuous improvement cycle, including phases of the cycle and the application in schools. As part of the cycle, participants will learn about a variety of data sources and the purpose for data use while reflecting on the current use of data at their site. To apply their learning, participants will engage in collaborative problem-solving to support each other in addressing barriers to the full use of continuous improvement cycles in their work. The intended audience for this module is primary and secondary teachers and leaders.
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