AVID Tutorials and AVID Tutors

Tutorials and tutors play a vital role in the AVID Elective class, while also benefiting other content-area classes in a school. As a key component to the collaboration portion of the AVID System, tutorials are a time and place where students come with complex questions from any content class and get guiding support to confront tough problems and solve them within their own means.

Using their knowledge and experience, AVID-trained tutors are able to conduct collaborative tutorials that lead to increased student participation and success. Trained tutors are able to create an environment where students feel comfortable asking the questions that they might be embarrassed to ask in their content-area classrooms. Training tutors is critical for effective tutorials, and AVID Center offers many opportunities, including the Tutorology strand at Summer Institute for site team members to learn the proper techniques for training their own tutors.

Tutors are essential to the success of AVID, acting as a resource and role model for AVID students both academically and socially. AVID alumni who continue their education in college often return to AVID at local schools or their alma mater as tutors to continue their involvement with the AVID family.

PREP WORK

• 1. Gather your materials for your tutorial, fill out your TRF with 1 question and Point of Confusion.
• 2. Identify and define key academic vocabulary associated with topic/question.
• 3. List a few things you already know about your question.
• 4. Challenge yourself to think critically about your question.
• 5. Identify General Process and Steps you were taught about this topic/process or that is related/about this question/subject.
• 6. What is your Point of Confussion?
• 7. Turn in your TRF- Your TRF will be graded ONLY for teaching you to become clear, consise and thorough in your identification of a question, communicating it, critical thinking and problem solving skills.

DURING TUTORIAL 

REFLECTION