1. WICORize Your lessons
Lee Fox: Umatilla High School, AVID Coordinator/Elective Teacher
Kristen Pautienus: Lake Minneola High School, AVID Coordinator/Elective Teacher

2. Welcome to Wicorize your lessons
Use a sticky note to label your level of teaching experience on the poster.
Use the piece of cardstock on your table to make a name tent.
Name in the center.
Top Left: The school where you teach.
Top Right: The subject you teach.
Bottom Left: One place you would love to visit.
Bottom Right: One word or illustration that describes you.
Welcome to Wicorize your lessons

3. Move around the room and find someone with the same shoes as you.
Take your name tent with you.
Introduce yourself and share the drawing or word that describes you.
Find your “Sole-Mate”

4. Essential Question Learning Goal Agenda Vocabulary Homework
How can I use WICOR strategies to implement fun, rigorous activities in my classroom?
Essential Question
Teachers will engage in WICOR strategies to understand how to incorporate AVID practices into any content or lesson.
Learning Goal
Brainstorm Carousel
Community Builders
Quickwrites
Philosophical Chairs
Critical Reading Strategies
One-Pager
WICORize a Lesson
Agenda
AVID
WICOR
Vocabulary
Share strategies and learning at your school site.
Homework

5. Think about an engaging activity that you do with your students
Think about an engaging activity that you do with your students. In three minutes, write about that activity and explain why it is rigorous.
Quickwrite

6. WiCorize Lessons Schoolwide
Myavid.org
On Demand Modules
WiCorize Lessons Schoolwide

7. What would be the easiest way to WICORize your current method of teaching?
What can you immediately add to increase student engagement and retention?
Table Debrief

8. Community Builder Circle of Trust
Stand, push in your chair, you need a pen.
Participants stand in a circle with their pens holding a pen with the person next to them using only their index finger.
Community Builder

9. On your WICOR reflection sheet, write down the activities we have done so far, and a way you can use it in your class.
WICOR Reflection

10. You will have 3 minutes to write the pros and cons of the Central Statement on your Graphic Organizer.
Philosophical chairs

11. Students should be allowed to use their phones in the classroom.
3 minutes for participants to fill out the graphic organizer.
Philosophical Chairs

12. Philosophical Chairs Rules of Engagement
Listen when others speak, seek to understand
One person speaks at a time
Briefly summarize the previous speaker’s argument, using their name, before you respond
Wait until 3 others on your side have spoken before you speak again
Address ideas, not the person
Remain open and move to other side if your opinion is swayed

13. Students should be allowed to use their phones in the classroom.
3 minutes for participants to fill out the graphic organizer.
Philosophical Chairs

14. Philosophical Chair Reflection
Complete the reflection on the bottom of your graphic organizer.
Philosophical Chair Reflection

15. Brainstorm Carousel With your table mates, go to one of the posters.
Read the prompt, and use a marker to brainstorm.
Can be words or visuals.
Rotate
Set up posters with the following prompts for the carousel. Participants walk from poster to poster with their group to answer the questions.
How can we provide opportunities for students to access technology?
o   How can we set students up for success with e-learning?
o   How can we teach digital citizenship?
o   How can we use technology to allow students to problem solve?
o   Technology can make our students successful global citizens. What in your content is addressed globally?
Brainstorm Carousel

16. Take Cornell Notes Did You know
Can we download this video from youtube before the training? Great video about why what we teach in the classroom matters so much to prepare our students for their future!
Did You know

17. So what does it all mean to us as teachers?
quickwrite

18. Stand, Share, Sit Everyone stands.
Go around the table sharing your Quickwrite.
Once you share, you get to sit.
Stand, Share, Sit

19. Community Builder: Knock, Knock, Boom, pow
You need a partner
Stand face to face where you can see the screen
Community Builder: Knock, Knock, Boom, pow

20. Knock Knock Boom Pow Boom Boom Knock Pow Knock Boom Knock Pow

21. Critical reading strategies
Number the Paragraphs
1st Read: Circle Key Terms
2nd Read: Underline Author Claims
3rd Read: Make Connections in the margins
Write questions you have.
Identify how the reading connects to you, your life, or your previous experiences.

22. Article one pager Fill the entire page Use words and illustrations
Use at least 5 different colors
Must include the title and author of the article
Must include a quote from the article
Must include a personal connection to the article
Be creative!
The One-Pager is a way of responding to a piece of writing on a single sheet of paper. It represents your own written and graphic interpretation of what you have read. It may be very literal (just based on the facts or information in the piece) or it may be a symbolic representation of the piece. It helps you as a reader to visualize what you are reading.
Article one pager

23. Socratic seminars Pilot/Co-Pilot Make sure you: Count off 1-2-3
Reference the text
Restate what the person before you said
Wait for your turn to talk: let 3 people speak before you speak again
Count off 1-2-3
Take a small stack of post-it notes with you to your group

24. Socratic Seminar reflection
Take off your student hat and put on your teacher hat. How could this technique be effective in our classrooms?
Share out thoughts.
Socratic Seminar reflection

25. WICORize a Lesson Take your blank lesson plan and WICORize it!
Give each table a sheet of chart paper to take the bland lesson plan they are given and WICORize it. Post the paper up around the room.
WICORize a Lesson

26. 1-2-3 reflection Turn to a partner and share the following things:
ONE Strategy you enjoyed.
TWO ways you can take what you learned back to your classroom.
THREE people you will share this with at your school site.
Anthony:
Reflection: 3 minutes

27. On your WICOR reflection sheet, write down the activities we have done so far, and a way you can use it in your class.
WICOR Reflection

28. Lee Fox Kristen Pautienus Umatilla High School foxl@lake.k12.fl.us
Lake Minneola High School