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Friday Funnies: Bubble Failure

There is a place for multiple choice assessments, but when we place too high a premium on the ability to guess correctly, are we really creating deep thinkers? See how a company of teachers and by...

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Friday Funnies: Picture This

It’s said that pictures are worth a thousand words. In every TCI program, we include lessons that build around powerful visuals. We call this type of lesson a Visual Discovery.  Learn more about this...

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Friday Funnies: Scary New Start

What does your school do to help the transition into a new school for a student?  How welcome and inviting is your student body and staff?  Good questions to think about.  Comment and share your...

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Friday Funnies: Primary Source Tyrant

Having students use and find primary sources is a great exercise. See http://bit.ly/GGA4TB to get some practical tips on using them in class.

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Friday Funnies: Nature’s Primary Source

Don’t forget to check out our Facebook page and recorded webinars here and here on primary sources all this month!

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Friday Funnies: (Special Thanksgiving edition) Wild Turkey

From all of us at TCI, Happy Thanksgiving!

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Friday Funnies: Lazy Mayan

Don’t worry…you’ll have time after 12/21 to come back and do the lesson on the Mayan Sacred Round. Just do a 30-day trial of our Medieval World program! http://teachtci.com/trial and check it out!

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Friday Funnies: Snow Day is No Holiday

To be clear…I’ve never met 3 kids like Felix, Josh, and Paul. Perhaps though, they just might be so excited to be in a class using TCI materials that they can’t stand the thought of missing out just...

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Friday Funnies: Periodically Disturbing

How do most students stay up-to-date on current events? You guessed it…social media. While there are many good things about social media, like any other tool…it has it’s place. If used to search out...

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Infographic: The Flipped Classroom

How many of you are in schools that are currently flipping or entertaining moving towards a flipped model?  What have been the benefits and drawbacks? Created by Knewton and Column Five Media  

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