This document outlines an agenda for two sessions on applying AVID WICOR strategies in middle school English Language Arts classes. The goals are to scaffold student learning at complex levels, promote critical reading and thinking skills, and support collaboration. The agenda includes quickwrites, modeling lessons, helping teachers incorporate WICOR strategies into their own lessons, and reflections. Specific strategies that will be covered are marking the text, one-pager responses, carousel brainstorming, philosophical chairs, and learning logs.

1. AVID Strategies for
the Middle School
ELA Teacher
Dan Dawer
Pflugerville Middle School
August 14, 2014
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2. Outcomes
Participants will understand how to
apply AVID WICOR strategies in their
Middle School ELA classes in order to:
1. Scaffold student learning at
increasingly complex levels
2. Promote critical reading and
thinking skills
3. Support collaboration between
learners

3. Agenda (Session 1)
8:30 – 8:40: Quickwrite
8:40 – 8:50: What is WICOR?
8:50 – 9:15: Model Lessons
9:15 – 9:35: WICOR-izing a lesson
9:35 – 9:45: Reflection and Application

4. Agenda (Session 2)
10:00 – 10:10: Quickwrite
10:10 – 10:20: What is WICOR?
10:20 – 10:45: Model lessons
10:45 – 11:05: WICOR-izing a lesson
11:05 – 11:15: Reflection and
Application

5. Quickwrite
What do you already know about…
• AVID?
• WICOR?
• Critical thinking and reading skills?
What new information do you want to
learn about these topics?

6. Reading Strategy:
Marking the text

7. Organization Strategy:
One-Pager Response

8. Inquiry Strategy:
Carousel Brainstorm

9. Collaboration Strategy:
Philosophical Chairs

10. Philosophical Chairs
Decide whether you agree or disagree
with the statement below:
Good teachers are made, not born. We
know which techniques and strategies
are most effective, and we can train
teachers to improve.

11. Writing Strategy:
Learning Log