Teaching Strategies

The Best Ideas for Managing and Evaluating the Interactive Student Notebook

Benefit from our years of wisdom on how to handle absent students, create clear expectations and grade a mountain of notebooks and keep sane.

Creating High Level Discussions that Improve Reading Comprehension

Learn specific steps and procedures for improving reading comprehension in the content area using small group discussions.

Creating Passionate Debates and Fervent Dialogues about Social Studies

Learn how to spark fervent discussions about key social studies topics that involve the entire class.

Getting the Most Out of Class Discussions

We'll share concrete strategies for how to get the entire class involved in discussions so that everyone benefits and learns.

Getting Started with the Interactive Student Notebook

We'll share concrete, easy-to-implement steps that will help you get started with the notebook on the right foot.

Managing and Evaluating the Interactive Student Notebook

Discover answers to common notebook questions like How often should you collect and grade notebooks? and What's the best way to handle absent students?

Social Studies Skill Builders: Good-bye Worksheets, Hello Real Learning

Discover how to use Social Studies Skill Builders, and we think you'll toss your worksheets for these dynamic, interactive activities.

Social Studies Skill Builders in Five Easy Steps

Learn how to turn traditional, rote tasks usually associated with skill-based worksheets into more dynamic, interactive activities.

Strategies to Motivate Struggling Readers

Discover how to address the challenge of having varying reading levels in a classroom. You'll discover fun, easy-to-implement strategies for supporting struggling readers

Visual Discovery: How It Works and Where to Find (Free) Images

We'll show you five steps for teaching with images and where to find free images to create your own lessons.

Web Tools and Technology

Getting the Most Out of Your TCI Subscription

We'll show you the many updates we've made to your Teacher Subscription and give you some ideas and tools to maximize this powerful tool.

A Tweetcher's Guide to Twitter

Experience a Twitter tutorial and discover why we think it's one of the mightiest professional development tools available.

Using Web 2.0 to Engage Students

Discover the best of the Web 2.0 tools and how to effectively use them in your classroom. You'll explore word clouds, social media, and more.

Web Tools Every Teacher Can Use

Discover new and mostly free web tools that you can use to hook students and make teaching fun.

Your TCI Subscription: Five Must Know Features

Discover the key features of your TCI Subscription to help you begin using it in your classroom.

Assessment and Test Prep

Assessment Tune-Up

Explore innovative strategies and sites you can leverage when preparing review exercises with your students. You'll get game ideas, website suggestions, and hear other teachers' good ideas.

Gaming for Class Success

Discover how to integrate games into your instruction in ways that engage students and help them learn key content.

Test Prep the Active Way

Discover active test preparation activities that you can use to help students get ready for standardized tests or day-to-day assessments. You'll leave the webinar with practical ideas you can use immediately.

Special Topics

Building Financial Literacy

Learn concrete strategies and participate in lessons that you can use to boost your students' financial literacy.

By George! Lessons for Teaching About American Presidents

Discover how to engage your students and pique their curiosity about American presidents.

Debriefing Your Year

Discover debrief experiences you can conduct in class to find out how your students reacted to your content, approach, and grading procedures.

Great Lessons for Women's History

Discover lessons you can use to teach women's history. We'll show you how to create your own lessons and give you ideas you can use immediately.

Learning World History is Boring and Other Myths Busted

TCI CEO and founder Bert Bower busts the myth that world history is boring and shows concrete ways you can make world history your students' favorite subject.

"Summerize" Your Students

Mariners winterize their boats. Teachers should summer-ize their students. Get your students ready for summer break by providing resources and outlets for their learning to continue. You'll discover enrichment activities and opportunities your students and their families can embrace.

Teaching with Documents and DBQs Without the Dull Factor

Learn concrete methods for helping students succeed on DBQs. We'll share terrific resources for primary source documents and lessons and give you ideas for how to use them in class to eliminate dull and pump up the fun factor.

Using Primary Sources to Spark Student Interest

Learn how to integrate a variety of primary sources, including music, visuals, political cartoons and written documents, into your instruction in ways that appeal to students' multiple intelligences and help them better understand key social studies concepts.