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Getting Started with your TCI Teacher Subscription 7 Aug 2013 | 08:40 pm
We’ve put together this highly visual step-by-step guide for setting up and using your TCI Teacher Subscription. Open up the PDF to download the guide.
Starting the School Year Right: Lesson D 6 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
This is the last of a multi-lesson unit called Basic Training: Starting the School Year Right. In this lesson, students learn how some simple classroom procedures can save loads of instructional time...
Student Subscription Scavenger Hunt 3 Aug 2013 | 03:16 am
August is here and it’s officially Back to School season. To help you get your students up and running in their TCI Student Subscriptions, we’ve created 3 customizable Student Subscription Scavenger ...
Starting the School Year Right: Lesson C 1 Aug 2013 | 05:52 pm
This is the third in a multi-lesson unit to open the school year. Students explore their learning styles and the learn importance of teamwork as they create a 60-second commercial. Students use a vari...
Starting the School Year Right: Lesson B 16 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
This is the second of a multi-lesson unit to start the school year. In this lesson, students learn the features of the Interactive Student Notebook by TCI. Two more lessons will follow soon. The re...
Starting the School Year Right: Lesson A 9 Jul 2013 | 03:41 pm
This is the first of a multi-lesson unit to start the school year. This first lesson introduces students to three simple rules to follow in class by inviting them to analyze images using TCI’s Visual...
TCI Lesson: Picking Rusty Gold – Why People Buy Antiques 25 Jun 2013 | 10:00 pm
Are you a fan of the popular “American Pickers” show on History Channel? Do you also want students to have a historical appreciation for vintage items? Maybe you just want students to understand sup...
Common Core & TCI: Writing for Understanding 24 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
As teachers uncover the Common Core standards, they will discover that a strong emphasis is placed on moving the students beyond the simple rote memory writing tasks. Students are challenged to do so...
Common Core & TCI: A Toolkit to Reading Readiness 20 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
College and career readiness plays a prominent role in the Common Core standards. Examine the ELA Anchor Standards Grades 6-12 (p. 57 of pdf). How can the content areas, such as social studies, sup...
Word Clouds & Spiral Questioning 18 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
Get your students engaged into Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (or any other primary source document) by using a word cloud of the primary source and the spiral question technique (aka the Detective Anal...
