TCI Implementation
TCI Engagement Strategies
Check out the new interactive Bring Learning Alive! guidebook.
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Six Engagement Stategies
1. Experiential Exercise
TCI’s Experiential Exercise is designed to tap into students’ intrapersonal and body-kinesthetic intelligence. They help students learn abstract ideas and make remote events accessible and meaningful.
2. Problem Solving Groupwork
TCI’s Problem Solving Groupwork activities are designed to teach students the skill they need to work together successfully in small groups, both in your classroom and later in life. During Problem Solving Groupwork tasks, students sit in mixed-ability groups to tackle challenging projects.
3. Response Groups
The Response Groups activities begin by placing students into groups of three and giving them a multiple intelligence prompt—it could be historical information, compelling images, primary sources, musical selections, or a map—to discuss.
4. Skill Builder
Social studies skills are vital to a student’s success. The ability to read maps, categorize information, analyze artifacts and primary resources, compare and contrast ideas, summarize main ideas, and interpret historical documents are all skills they need to master more difficult content in secondary school.
5. Visual Discovery
One of TCI’s most loved teaching strategies is the Visual Discovery strategy. As students view, touch, and interpret compelling images, teachers can step in and complete the story or even impart content knowledge.
6. Writing for Understanding
Writing for Understanding activities improve both students’ understanding of key social studies concepts and their writing ability by engaging students in interactive experiences.