Onsite Training and Consulting
- Secondary Courses:
- Review the courses below, select the ones
that will meet your training needs, and give us a
call at 800-840-2698 to help build a training just
for you.
201: Reaching
All Learners
202: Developing
Content Literacy
203: The
Interactive Student Notebook
204: Mastering
Assessment
205: Enhancing
Teachers’ Understanding and Appreciation of American
History
206: Differentiating
Instruction
- A full-day TCI Academy training is six hours, which is the minimum commitment for bringing us onsite. Mix and match sessions from any of the courses listed below to build a training just right for your site. One of our Customer Support Representatives will be happy to assist you in combining sessions to create one to five days of training.
Course
201: Reaching All Learners
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201a: Visual
Discovery: Developing Visual
Literacy Skills
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2
hours |
The
Visual Discovery strategy
encourages students to construct
their own knowledge through
higher-level thinking, develops
deductive reasoning, and
taps visual, intrapersonal
and body-kinesthetic intelligences.
Learn how to use Visual Discovery
activities that encourage
students to view, touch,
interpret, and bring to life
compelling images as they
discover key concepts. Seeing
and interacting with images
in combination with reading
and recording notes on the
content helps students remember
salient ideas.
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201b: Skill
Builder: Dynamic Methods
for Teaching Key Skills |
2
hours |
During
a Skill Builder, students
are challenged to work in
pairs to complete skill-oriented
tasks repeatedly while getting
immediate teacher feedback.
Discover how to teach students
key social studies skills
such as reading maps, categorizing
information, analyzing primary
sources, graphing and interpreting
graphs, and reading a timeline.
The Skill Builder strategy
turns traditional, rote tasks
usually associated with worksheets
into more dynamic, interactive
activities.
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201c: Experiential
Exercise: Helping Students
Connect to Abstract Concepts |
2
hours |
Experiential
Exercises are short, memorable
experiences that make abstract
ideas accessible and meaningful.
Learn how to bring to life
rich human dramas and compelling
experiences so that students
understand and remember even
the highest-level concepts.
Tapping into students’ intrapersonal
and body-kinesthetic intelligences
helps them build an appreciation
of key concepts that they will
long remember.
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| 201d: Writing
for Understanding: Turning
Your Students into Powerful
Writers |
2
hours |
To
write forcefully and in detail
about important topics, students
need interactive experiences
about which to write. The Writing
for Understanding strategy
taps into students’ multiple
abilities so that all learners—even
those with lesser linguistic
skills—have something memorable
to write about. You will discover
how to use prewriting activities,
authentic writing assignments,
and a guided writing process
to encourage students to write
with style and meaning.
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| 201e: Response
Groups: Cultivating Rich
Class Discussions |
2
hours |
Response
Groups are small, mixed-ability
groups that grapple with a
thought-provoking question
or issue and then share their
viewpoints with the entire
class. Discover how to teach
students the skills they need
for engaging in and enjoying
these in-depth, lively class
discussions. You’ll learn effective
methods for teaching students
to exchange information with
one another and to understand
different points of view effectively
and respectfully.
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| 201f: Problem
Solving Groupwork: Using
Collaborative Skills to Unlock
Understanding |
2
hours |
During
Problem Solving Groupwork tasks,
students sit in mixed-ability
groups to tackle challenging
projects. Because each student
has a well-defined role, everyone
participates. Learn how to
design and implement groupwork
activities that effectively
engage all students on challenging
projects. You’ll discover the
key elements of successful
groupwork and how to implement
them in your classroom.
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202: Developing Content Literacy |
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| 202a: Supporting
Struggling Readers |
6
hours |
By the time struggling readers reach the secondary level, they often have a negative, discouraged attitude toward reading. This session will delve into the reading process for secondary students and show you how to help them make meaning out of written content. You will improve your students’ reading performance and classroom success with scores of new ideas and strategies.
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| 202e: Supporting
Struggling Writers |
6
hours |
This session will demonstrate ways to support struggling writers so that all students, even those with lesser linguistic skills, are able to write powerfully and in detail as a means of learning and demonstrating knowledge. You will leave with scores of new ideas for making writing more meaningful and engaging for all students.
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203: The Interactive
Student Notebook |
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| 203a: Interactive
Student Notebook: Creating
Dynamic Repositories
of Student Work |
4
hours |
The
Interactive Student Notebook
has a long tradition of
success in the secondary
classroom. Discover how
to use Interactive Student
Notebooks to invite students
to become active participants
in their learning. As students
create these rich portfolios,
they tap a variety of intelligences—verbal,
logical, visual, and more.
You will discover how to
create and implement preview
assignments, graphically
organized reading notes,
and processing assignments.
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| 203b: Evaluating
Interactive Student Notebooks |
2
hours |
Discover
how to manage the volume
of notebook assignments
and provide consistent,
ongoing feedback to your
young students. Learn concrete
techniques for efficiently
and effectively assessing,
organizing, and evaluating
notebooks.
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204: Mastering Assessment |
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| 204a: Implementing Effective Assessment Strategies |
6
hours |
When we set realistic and explicit expectations for our students, we provide them with tangible goals and help them succeed on assignments. This session will guide you through the formative assessment process and suggest practical ways to check for student understanding. You will also learn how to create multiple intelligence summative assessments such as tests, writing assessments and project-based assessments.
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205: Enhancing Teachers’
Understanding and Appreciation
of American History |
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| 205a: The
Constitution |
3
hours |
You will become immersed in a lesson that explores constitutional law as you consider this session’s essential question How do you make historical documents relevant to students in your classroom? You will learn concrete steps for creating lessons based on historical documents and will begin to create your own lesson.
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| 205b: The
Bill of Rights |
3
hours |
You
will discover lessons and
methods that you can use
to engage your students in
the study of the Bill of
Rights and its amendments.
You will learn how to foster
rich class discussions about
Supreme Court cases and to
encourage students to think
critically about the applications
of the Bill of Rights.
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| 205c: Westward
Expansion |
3
hours |
In this session, you will experience lessons that encourage students to consider a variety of perspectives on westward expansion including those of railroad owners, American Indians, populists and settlers. As you consider this session’s essential question What advantages are there to having students appreciate different points of view?, you will learn to integrate primary and secondary sources into your instruction and begin to create your own American history lesson.
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| 205d: The
Civil War and Reconstruction |
3
hours |
This session explores ways that you can bring the drama and emotion of this pivotal era in American history alive for your students by allowing them to “experience” it themselves. You will discover how to thoughtfully and meaningfully re-create moments in history and make them relevant to your students’ lives today.
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| 205e: Industrial
America |
3
hours |
You will discover practical ways that you can tap a variety of intelligences in your instruction as you experience two powerful lessons that focus on Industrial America. Ultimately, you will begin to create a lesson or modify a lesson you already use in order to incorporate multiple intelligences.
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| 205f: The
United States in WWI and
WWII |
3
hours |
In this session, you will delve into ways to teach about the world wars that go beyond the causes, battles, and chronology of events. You will experience two lessons that explore the ways in which various groups on the American home front, such as women, Japanese-Americans, and African-Americans, were affected by the world wars.
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| 205g: The
Cold War |
3
hours |
In this session, you will experience lessons that encourage debate and consideration of the events and conflicts of the Cold War. You will learn a step-by-step process for creating, implementing, and assessing class discussions that involve all students, not just those with developed linguistic skills.
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| 205h: The
Civil Rights Movement |
3
hours |
Powerful emotions and convictions coupled with some of the most dynamic individuals in our nation’s history make the Civil Rights Movement a compelling area of study for secondary students. In this session, you will discover ways to tap into the performing arts to help students gain a deeper understanding of the important concepts of this era.
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| 205i: Using
Primary Source Documents
in U.S. History |
3
hours |
In this session, you will 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 our nation’s history. Your TCI Academy Trainer will share practical ideas for accessing sources and creating lessons that will spark student interest.
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| Course
206: Differentiating Instruction |
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| 206a: Reaching
Learners with Special Education
Needs |
6
hours |
In
this session, you will experience
social studies lessons from
a student’s perspective and
then debrief the lessons and
their adaptations with your
TCI Academy Trainer to understand
how you can apply similar strategies
in your classroom. Then, you
will drill into using assessment
strategies and graphic organizers
for special education learners
to discover techniques you
can employ with your students.
Finally, you will learn simple
ways to create a classroom
environment that supports special
education learners and helps
them succeed.
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| 206b: Challenging
Advanced Learner |
6
hours |
How
can we conduct lessons that
provoke our advanced learners
while meeting the needs of
other learners in the secondary
classroom? This session will
explore three aspects of teaching
advanced students: differentiating
process, content and product.
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| 206c: Helping
English Language Learners
Succeed |
6
hours |
In
this session, you will learn
how to use vocabulary and concept
attainment strategies to help
English language learners build
schema. You will have the opportunity
to apply what you’ve learned
to an actual classroom lesson.
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