AVID, standing for Advancement Via Individual Determination, is a class that helps you become more successful and better in the future. This class is recommended for students who want to go to college. In this class, you're to meet certain requirements to become a AVID students. First, you must keep a binder and needs to be organized, with dividers in the right places, previous work in it, and needs paper and pencils in it. Second, you must try you're (that means do your homework on time and try not to get any missing work). Those are some of the standards that have to be met to be a successful AVID student. I believe I meet the standards to be a very successful AVID student.
Tutorials are one of the main things we do in this class. The whole purpose of this is to help out with whatever we're struggling on in our core classes. Tutorials are done only on Tuesdays and Thursdays of each week. Before doing a tutorial, we fill out a TRF (Tutorial Request Form) the day before the tutorial starts. When doing a tutorial, we write our heading on a rubric, like the one shown above, and hand to the tutor we're assigned. Then, we're in a group of 4 or 5 with our TRF's and hoping to see who will go first. On our TRF is an initial question, vocabulary, what I know about my initial question, steps, and most important is our Point Of Confusion (POC). First in a tutorial, we write out POC on the board and give a 30 second speech on the POC. The other people show higher leveled thinking by asking high leveled question to help the presenter answer the question. Once done, the presenter writes the steps on the board and the next person goes. Once the tutorial is over, we take 7 minutes to write a reflection on our presentation or on how we helped the presenter if you didn't present. This is how we do a tutorial in AVID.