Tutor It Up

In my AVID class, my students have been slowly introduced to AVID approach to tutoring. The past two weeks we have spent time examining how to question each other and how to properly help each other work through problems that we may have in content area classes. Since we are still waiting to get our…

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Doing Work

Embedded above is an article that was featured in multiple Northwest Arkansas newspapers yesterday that featured our new AVID program. Mr. McClung

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Questions, Questions, and More Questions

In the past week, my AVID students have been focusing on the power of asking questions. We have reviewed the Costa’s Levels of Questioning which focuses on identifying basic questions and deeper level questions. Today in class my students got the opportunity to test out their new found skill of questioning. In the video above…

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Finding Motivation

Students, today in AVID we will be talking quite a bit about what you should expect from AVID and what I expect from you as your AVID teacher. In this post are two videos of student testimonials reflecting back on their experience with AVID. We will watch these two videos today in class and discuss…

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