Thursday, December 31, 2015

Back Teaching AVID

It was a turmoil year at my school.  I started teaching my 6-8th Leadership class, but budget cuts happened and we had to surplus teachers.  With that in mind, I lost my classes and was moved to AVID, which I loved any way.  It was bitter sweet to take my Leadership classes and give them to other teachers.  I was allowed to keep one class of 6th graders.  I was moved to AVID in the beginning of October.  I am currently teaching 6-7th graders which was great, but now it was like the first day of school again, I had to go over my ritual and routines, my expectations, and try to figure out where I needed to start.  So, I decided to teach them how to do Cornell notes.  You know I am a Pinterest fanatic, so I needed something that will help my 6th graders to remember how to use their Cornell Notes and remediation for my 7th graders.  So the search began.  I found an image, so I constructed my bulletin board.


Now, that was done.  The next lesson I started was how to do a tutorial.  I needed another visual to help them with the Tutorial Request Form (TRF).  I found another idea that was on Pinterest, but they used chalk paint on the wall, but I did not want to do that because I change rooms each year.  So, the light bulb went off in my head and I came up with placing black bulletin board paper on my closet door and I had a couple of my students create the TRF on the door with chalk.  It came out great.


 

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