1. Welcome to the AVID Program Individual Determination
Advancement
via
Individual Determination

2. How can AVID help you?
AVID is an academic, regularly scheduled elective class that helps students by:
Teaching study, note-taking and organizational skills
Strengthening their reading and writing skills
Giving tutorial help with college tutors
Teaching them to work collaboratively

3. How can AVID help students?
Taking them to visit colleges and universities
Assisting students to prepare for college entrance exams (ACT, SAT, EAP, etc.)
Introducing them to community service.

4. A Sample Week in the AVID Elective
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
AVID
Curriculum
Tutorials
Team-Building and Motivational Activities.
Binder Check

5. What does AVID curriculum include?
1. Reading and Writing Critically.
2. Collaborative and inquiry based work like Socratic Seminars, Philosophical Chairs, Speech writing and presentation, Debates etc.
3. College and career preparation and information.

8. Binder Expectations Students will have a divider for each class.
This divider will be organized so that handouts, notes, and other assignments can be found easily.

9. Cornell Notes
6TH Grade 4 notes per week from any subject points each
7th Grade 6 notes per week from any subject points each
8th Grade 8 notes per week from any subject points each
You may do Learning Logs if you don’t have enough notes.

10. Tutorials
Tutorials are like study groups: students ask each other questions in order to help each other understand concepts.

11. Preparing for College: Grades are turned into points.
B 3
C 2
D 1
F 0

12. The lowest grade will be a C.
What is the lowest grade that you can have in all of your classes if you are in AVID?
The lowest grade will be a C.

13. A-G Requirements a. History/Social Science (2 years)
b. English (4 years)
c. Mathematics (3 years, UC recommends 4)
d. Laboratory Science (2 years, UC recommends 3)
e. Language Other than English (2 years, UC recommends 3)
f. Visual/Performing Arts (1 year)
g. College Preparatory Elective (1 year)
“C” or better.

14. The Fun Part now: 4 Movie/pizza nights $5 each
2 University field trips $5 each
1 End of the Year trip to Knott’s Berry Farm $40 or so
1 AVID shirt $10
3 Parent nights FREE

15. The forms that you need to have:
1. AVID Application
2. Teacher recommendation
3. AVID contract
4. Enough tutorial forms
5. Enough binder evaluation forms.