The purpose of the AVID program is to prepare underachieving students for four-year college eligibility and to restructure the teaching methodologies of an entire school to make college preparatory curricula accessible to almost all students.
AVID recognizes that the only way students can get in to or through college is by perseverance, hard, work, and, as the program's name reveals, "individual determination." AVID students get no special breaks--only one chance. AVID provides what first generation college students may lack, what advantaged students receive from their parents and community: high expectations, encouragement, day to day help, a vision of college as attainable, an advocate, and guidance in how to negotiate the system. Avid involves students in a strong group of peers and adults who share a commitment to academic achievement.
Ultimately, AVID provides a scaffolding, a social and academic structure to support students as they work to succeed.
AVID targets students of mid-range ability who have the potential to succeed in a rigorous academic program but who would not succeed without support. It is not a remedial program for students who are failing, and it is not for gifted students who are already performing well. It serves the students in the middle, who are capable of success but are not performing up to their potential. AVID is, at heart, a program that equips ordinary students to accomplish extraordinary things.
To provide academic instruction and other support to students and prepare them for eligibility to four year colleges and universities.
To give students college level success.
To increase the "coping skills" of program participants
To motivate program students to seek a college education
To increase the participants' levels of career awareness
AVID ACTIVITIES
Learning with college tutors
Writing for all classes
Developing success strategies
Applying for college and financial aid
Preparing for a professional career
Visiting college campuses
Interacting with guest speakers
Participating in extra curricular and community activities
WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE?
Students who have the potential and desire to attend a four year college and...
.....have appropriate classroom behavior.
.....have 2.0 or above grade point average.
.....are willing to commit themselves to a minimum of two hours of homework each night.
......are willing to commit to enrollment in a rigorous college preparatory sequence of courses.
