Week #24 AVID

2-22-10

Target: Students will use the mobile lab to research for their career project. Students can find the links to quality resources on the AVID Blog. Students should find important facts that help them to write their career research project.

2-23-10

Tutorials

2-24-10

Scheduling Revisited: Students will bring a complete four year plan and schedule to class. We will discuss how the plan should be used in Student Led Conferences (SLC's). We will also evaluate each students strength of schedule. Career Research Papers Due

2-25-10

1/2 Day: Student Led Conferences

Tutorials

Dismissed at 10:35 AM

2-26-10

Guest Speaker --Dr. Ovidio Penalver

Week #23 AVID

2-15-10

Happy President's Day

2-16-10

Target: Identifying elements of success help to build success. Students will break up into tutorial groups and work on their life event graphs. Students will focus on three positive and three negative events in their life and place them on a time line. By identifying the events students will focus on the elements of success. Every student needs to share their events and work on three future events that they expect to accomplish in the next fifteen years.

2-17-10

Career Research "Field Research"

Target: Student will practice interviewing someone from their career field. Through a step by step process students will learn the proper phone etiquette and how to make a professional appointment. Students will then make phone calls to schedule interview times. We will discuss potential questions and how to document the findings. If time permits we will work on themes for the paper.

2-18-10

Tutorial

2-19-10

Registration "Please bring your registration forms from Link."

Week #22 AVID

2-8-10

Target: Students will examine their passions for a future career. Students will use the following list for preparation of their career research paper.
* Reflect
* List 5-8
* Share
* Brain Storm
* Pro/Con
* Narrow List
* Quick Write
* Guided Reflection

2-9-10

Tutorials

Target: This week tutorials will focus on student questioning. In order to receive full credit on their tutorial request sheets students will need to ask questions during tutorials. The questions must be guided in nature and should help lead classmates to discovery learning. Examples will be used prior to tutorials.

2-10-10

Target: Students will use the mobile lab to research their career and develop a works cited page. All students should bring a flash drive to class so that they can keep their information and not have to rewrite.

2-11-10

Target: This week tutorials will focus on student questioning. In order to receive full credit on their tutorial request sheets students will need to ask questions during tutorials. The questions must be guided in nature and should help lead classmates to discovery learning. Examples will be used prior to tutorials.

Week #21 AVID

2-1-10

Target: Goal setting revisited. Students will examine a goal that they want to accomplish in the next month. They will then write exactly what they believe their parents or guardians will say when they accomplish their goal. By writing about success students will begin to visualize how they hope to accomplish their goals.
*Visualization
*Creative Writing

2-2-10

Tutorials "New Groups" Assigned

Target: Students will work on questions that were developed in class on Thursday. All questions are level three and focus on the hidden curriculum of their core classes.

2-3-10

Target: First semester goals revisited. Students will examine their first semester goals to determine if they have successfully made improvements. For goals that have been accomplished, students will write a new goal. For goals that are unattained, students will re-write and simplify. An on-demand quick write will be assigned so students can examine the challenges and obstacles that keep them from attaining their goals.

2-4-10

Tutorial

2-5-10

Team Building Activity