WICOR Wonderings

WICOR Wonderings

Teachers in all content areas can intentionally incorporate WICOR strategies into their daily lessons.WICOR strategies are effective in any instructional setting.

Reading

Collaboration

Writing

Organization

Inquiry

WICOR INSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS

Reading

Collaboration

Writing

Inquiry

Organization

Questions? Emily.Munn@MNPS.org

Students who organize:

Self-direct, self-evaluate, self-monitor, and self-advocate to reach academic goals • Develop and use tools to organize thinking, resources, and time • Develop and use processes, procedures, and tools to study effectively • Prepare for rigorous courses and engage fully in instruction

AVID supports organization through blended learning experiences including:

• Binders, eBinders, calendars, planners, and agendas

• The focused note-taking process

• Graphic organizers
• Project planning and SMART goal-setting

• Tutorials, Collaborative Study Groups, and Scholar Groups

AVID supports collaboration through blended learning experiences including:

• Academic language and literacy scaffolds

• Socratic Seminars
• Philosophical Chairs
• Jigsaw, World Café, ReciprocalmTeaching, and Numbered Heads

• Synchronous and asynchronous peer editing groups

• Tutorials, Collaborative Study Groups, and Scholar Groups

AVID supports reading through blended learning experiences including:

• Disciplinary literacy
• Academic language and literacy scaffolds

• Culturally relevant texts
• The critical reading process
• The focused note-taking process

• Vocabulary building
• Summarizing
• Tutorials, Collaborative Study Groups, and Scholar Groups

Students who collaborate:

• Create a safe and supportive physical and philosophical environment • Work through identifed structures and roles to achieve a common goal • Develop positive interdependence • Clearly communicate verbally and nonverbally • Listen effectively to decipher meaning • Deepen the learning of others through inquiry and active engagement

AVID supports writing through blended learning experiences including:

• Disciplinary literacy

• Academic language and literacy scaffolds

• Learning-through-writing strategies

• The focused note-taking process

• The writing process in every content area

• Collaboration
• Tutorials, Collaborative Study Groups, and Scholar Groups

AVID supports inquiry through blended learning experiences including:

• Design thinking and problem-based learning

• Computational thinking
• Skilled questioning techniques
• Costa’s Levels of Thinking
• Socratic Seminars
• Tutorials, Collaborative Study Groups, and Scholar Groups

Students who inquire:

• Analyze and synthesize materials or ideas • Clarify their own thinking • Probe others’ thinking • Work through ambiguity • Solve authentic problems

Students who read:

• Activate, engage, and extend beyond the text • Make predictions and create visual images as they read • Understand text structures • Question the text and engage in deep inquiry • Become content experts • Evaluate sources for accuracy and bias

Students who write: • Engage frequently, in every content area and classroom • Cite evidence to support their thinking • Deepen their understanding of content • Demonstrate command of academic vocabulary • Communicate as a content expert • Communicate their thinking competently and confidently