Heaton Middle School
WICOR
What are the WICOR Strategies?
WICOR strategies are used school-wide by all teachers across all grades and contents. All students use these strategies to learn, study, and apply knowledge.
Writing
- Cornell Note-Taking
- Learning Logs
- Quickwrites and Reflections
- Process Writing
- Peer Evaluation
- Authentic Writing
Inquiry
- Skilled Questioning Techniques
- Costa's Leve Is of Thinking
- Socratic Seminars
- Tu tori a Is
- Investigations
- Questions that Guide Research
Collaboration
- Socratic Seminars
- Tutorials
- Philosophical Chairs
- Group Activities and Projects
- Peer Editing Groups
- Service Learning Projects
Organization
- Binders and organizational tools
- Calendars, planners, and agendas
- Graphic organizers
- A focused note-taking system
- Tutorials and study groups
- Project planning and SMART goals
Reading
- Deep Reading Strategies
- Note-Taking
- Graphic Organizers
- Vocabulary Building
- Summarizing
- Reciprocal Teaching