Identifying and Selecting Proper AVID Students
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What is
AVID?
AVID stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination. The most important part of this acronym is the Individual Determination (ID). When selecting AVID students, we must focus on the ID. This is the key essential element that will allow the students we pick to be adaptable to change, to want to succeed in the AVID elective and core classes, and to drive and push themselves to excellence.
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What else does
AVID do?
AVID has its own curriculum which uses Writing,
Inquiry, Collaboration, and Reading (WICR). Students are given and practice strategies to help them to
become more critical thinkers. Students are required to complete a certain
number of community service hours, as well as participate in school-wide
organizations and events. Students are encouraged to be leaders within the mainstream classroom and are given
opportunities within the AVID elective to increase these leadership skills.
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What does an
AVID student look like?
AVID
students do fall into certain criteria.
These include:
1. Average to high
test scores
2. 2.0-3.5 GPA
3. College
potential with support
4. Desire and determination
Students
also should meet one or more of the following criteria:
1. First to attend
college
2. Historically
underserved in four-year colleges
3. Low income
4. Special
circumstances
AVID
students are going to be the students in your classroom who are average
students who could do better with more attention and strategies. AVID students
are usually not students who are already making straight AÕs or students who
are making straight Ds and Fs and donÕt wish to try any harder. AVID is not
a remedial program for struggling students, nor is it a gifted and talented
class. It is a class that takes
students with desire and determination to succeed and gives them the tools to
do so.
AVID
Decades of College Dreams 