WICOR Strategies
WICOR Strategies
WICOR stands for Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading. WICOR is a learning model that AVID uses to help students learn at higher levels and increase rigor in the classroom.
Examples of using WICOR:
Writing: Cornell Notes, Learning Logs, Quickwrites, Reflections, Peer Evaluations
Inquiry: Costa’s Level of Thinking, Socratic Seminars, Tutorials, Questions that Guide Research
Collaboration: Socratic Seminars, Tutorials, Group Activities, Group Projects, Service Learning Projects
Organization: Binders, Calendars, Planners, Agendas, Graphic Organizers, Focused Notes, Tutorials, Study Groups,
Reading: Reading Strategies, Note-taking, Graphic Organizers, Vocab Building, Summarizing
