WICOR is a collection of teaching and learning strategies to guide students in comprehending concepts and articulating ideas at increasingly complex levels. Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading. WICOR strategies support student learning in any classroom at Nichols.
WICOR is an instructional approach involving both teachers and students that places students at the center and empowers them to take ownership and agency in their thinking and learning. When educators create instructional experiences integrated in the rich layers of WICOR, students are actively engaged with content through productive struggle, cognitive wrestling, and critical thinking to access rigorous content from a multitude of perspectives and use it to create new innovations, challenge old ideas, and positively impact the world around them.
Nichols' focus is to incorporate WICOR strategies in all classrooms at all grade levels.
Time Management and Organization
How does effective organization of time and materials lead to academic success? What can we do at home to support our student with organization?
Time management is one of the first organizational skills a student will want to master. Developing time management skills requires students to analyze how they spend their time, decide upon priorities, and start to plan ahead. The ability to implement a time management system is crucial to student success.
Time management is -
- Focusing on school work while in class
- Staying on task
- Asking for clarification when needed
- Completing class work and homework on time
- Knowing what to do when work is completed
- Scheduling both Study Buddy time and independent study time
- Allowing preparation for projects
- Beginning homework after school every day
- Acquiring supplies for projects ahead of time
- Providing quality study time
- Managing project timeliness effectively
Please see below for daily and weekly time management templates. Feel free to ask your school counselor for copies and help with implementation.