TCI Implementation

Program Access & Implementation Support: Matt Doran (via CCS email)

TCI Digital Platform Technical Issues: info@teachtci.com

Canvas Integration with TCI Technical Issues: Learning Technology Dept. (via CCS email)

Teachers and students will access TCI via CCS Classlink Launchpad. Look for the purple icon "TCI Subscription."

TCI programs are assigned based on teacher master schedules in Infinite Campus. Teachers are not able to add additional programs to their accounts. Class rosters are synced from Infinite Campus at the beginning of the school year, and each evening during the school year. Teachers are not able to make changes to class rosters.

TCI's new In-App On-Demand PD provides 3 leveled series for self-paced PD. With these self-paced courses, you can start, pause, and repeat content anytime directly on TCI’s platform. You can earn certificates with documented hours at the end of each course. To access the PD, open any TCI program and locate the "Professional Development" link at the top of the left side purple menu.

100 Series

• Getting Started with TCI
• Assigning and Grading in TCI

200 Series

• Integrating with Canvas

300 Series

• Building a Cooperative Classroom

Lessons and activities are based on five well-established theories.

Understanding by Design (Wiggins & McTighe) - Teaching for deep understanding requires planning backward—first determining the big ideas students are to learn and then working backward to determine acceptable evidence and identify methods to reach those goals.

Nonlinguistic Representation (Marzano) - Research demonstrates that teaching with nonlinguistic activities such as graphic organizers, mental images, and movement helps to improve students’ understanding of content.

Multiple Intelligences (Gardner) - Every student is intelligent—just not in the same way. The best activities tap more than one kind of intelligence. Gardner has described these seven intelligences: verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, body kinesthetic, musical-rhythmic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal.

Cooperative Interaction (Cohen) - When students are trained in cooperative behaviors, placed in mixed-ability groups, and assigned roles to complete during a multiple-ability task, they tend to interact more equally. This increased student interaction leads to more learning and greater content retention.

Spiral Curriculum (Bruner) - In the spiral curriculum, students learn progressively more difficult concepts through a process of step-by-step discovery. With this approach, all students can learn once a teacher has shown them how to think and discover knowledge for themselves.

TCI lessons are designed to be dynamic and interactive to fully engage students. Additionally, you will find these elements in each TCI lesson.

Preview

• A short, engaging activity at the start of each lesson helps you preview key concepts and tap students’ prior knowledge and personal experience.

Activity / Engagement Strategy with Reading

• Six multiple intelligence activities/engagement strategies are intertwined with carefully structured reading materials that enable students at all levels to understand what they read.

Interactive Student Notebook

• Section notes and graphic organizers help students record key ideas and make meaning out of what they read. By using graphic organizers that display the underlying logic of and interconnections among concepts, students improve their comprehension and retention of content.

Processing

• An end-of-lesson activity, involving multiple intelligences and higher-order thinking skills, challenges students to apply what they have learned in a variety of creative ways.

These six Multiple Intelligence teaching strategies are incorporated into TCI’s classroom activities.

Students view, touch, interpret, and bring to life compelling images, turning what is usually a passive, teacher centered activity—lecturing—into a dynamic, participative experience.

General Guidelines

1. Use powerful images to teach social studies concepts.
2. Arrange your classroom so projected images will be large and clear.
3. Ask carefully sequenced questions that lead to discovery.
4. Challenge students to read about the image and apply what they learn.
5. Have students interact with the images to demonstrate what they have learned.

Click here to view a webinar on the Visual Discovery strategy.

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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.

General Guidelines

1. Use engaging tasks to teach social studies skills.
2. Teach the skill through modeling and guided practice.
3. Prepare students to work in pairs.
4. Set clear expectations, allow students to practice the skill repeatedly, and give immediate feedback.
5. Debrief the lesson to help students make connections to key social studies concepts.

Click here to view a webinar on the Social Studies Skill Builder strategy.

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These short, memorable activities make abstract ideas or remote events accessible and meaningful by tapping into intrapersonal and body kinesthetic intelligences. They help students learn abstract ideas and make remote events accessible and meaningful.

General Guidelines

1. Use short, memorable experiences to help students grasp social studies concepts.
2. Prepare your students for a safe, successful experience.
3. Make the experiences as authentic as possible.
4. Allow students to express their feelings immediately after the experience.
5. Ask carefully sequenced questions to help students make connections between their experience and key concepts or events.

Click here to view a webinar on the Experiential Exercise strategy.

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Writing for Understanding activities improve both students’ understanding of key social studies concepts and their writing ability by engaging students in interactive experiences. To write forcefully and in detail about social studies topics, students need interactive experiences about which to write. Purposeful writing assignments motivate students to write with style and meaning.

General Guidelines

1. Use writing to help your students learn key social studies concepts.
2. Give students rich experiences to write about.
3. Have students record their ideas, thoughts, and feelings in prewriting activities.
4. Provide students with authentic writing assignments.
5. Guide students through the writing process.

Click here to view a webinar on the Writing for Understanding strategy.

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Response Group activities are a way to sidestep the problems inherent in class discussion. Students first work in small groups with thought-provoking resources—perhaps viewing compelling images, reading primary sources, or listening to music—and then discuss related critical thinking questions among themselves.

General Guidelines

1. Challenge students to discuss controversial and complex issues in small groups.
2. Create heterogeneous groups and a suitable classroom arrangement.
3. Prepare students to answer provocative critical thinking questions.
4. Allow groups time to prepare their responses.
5. Facilitate a lively class discussion.

Click here to view a webinar on the Response Group strategy.

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Problem Solving Groupwork activities teach students the skills necessary to work together successfully in small groups, both in the classroom and later in life. During Problem Solving Groupwork tasks, students sit in heterogeneously mixed groups to work on challenging projects, such as preparing a historical dramatization.

General Guidelines

1. Challenge students with engaging, multiple-ability projects.
2. Prepare all students for successful groupwork.
3. Give group members clearly defined roles and requirements.
4. Give groups autonomy and time to prepare high-quality products.
5. Have groups present their work.

Click here to view a webinar on the Problem Solving Groupwork strategy.

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Hard Copy Class Sets: History Alive! The Ancient World and Geography Alive! Regions and People

Digital: History Alive! CCS Edition: This is a custom edition created specifically for CCS and aligned with the order of the CCS curriculum map. It includes both the Ancient World and Geography Alive! content integrated into one product.

Grade 6 standards are primarily concept and skill-based standards, rather than lists of content facts. It is not necessary to use all the lessons in this program to meet the standards. Geography standards, for example, may be incorporated into lessons on ancient history or the modern world.

All teacher materials are contained in the digital platform. Teacher materials can be projected in presentation format and/or printed as PDF files. There is no teacher's wrap-around edition. All student materials can be accessed via the digital platform and/or printed as PDF files. This includes the textbook, interactive notebook and lesson handouts.

Hard Copy Class Sets: History Alive! The Ancient World and History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond

Digital: History Alive! OH Edition: This is a custom Ohio edition. It includes both the Ancient World and Medieval World and Beyond content integrated into one product.

All teacher materials are contained in the digital platform. Teacher materials can be projected in presentation format and/or printed as PDF files. There is no teacher's wrap-around edition. All student materials can be accessed via the digital platform and/or printed as PDF files. This includes the textbook, interactive notebook and lesson handouts.

Hard Copy Class Sets and Digital: History Alive! The U.S. through Industrialism, 2nd Edition. The digital and hard copy are the same. State standards and district curriculum conclude with the Reconstruction Era.

History Alive! The U.S. through Industrialism Teacher Placards. This is a hard copy package. These will be sent to teachers via CCS office mail.

All teacher materials are contained in the digital platform. Teacher materials can be projected in presentation format and/or printed as PDF files. There is no teacher's wrap-around edition. All student materials can be accessed via the digital platform and/or printed as PDF files. This includes the textbook, interactive notebook and lesson handouts.

Digital and Hard Copy Class Sets: History Alive! World Connections, 3rd Edition

History Alive! World Connections Teacher Placards. This is a hard copy package. These will be sent to teachers via CCS office mail.

All teacher materials are contained in the digital platform. Teacher materials can be projected in presentation format and/or printed as PDF files. There is no teacher's wrap-around edition. All student materials can be accessed via the digital platform and/or printed as PDF files. This includes the textbook, interactive notebook and lesson handouts.

Digital and Hard Copy Class Sets: History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, 3rd Edition

History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals Teacher Placards. This is a hard copy package. These will be sent to teachers via CCS office mail.

All teacher materials are contained in the digital platform. Teacher materials can be projected in presentation format and/or printed as PDF files. There is no teacher's wrap-around edition. All student materials can be accessed via the digital platform and/or printed as PDF files. This includes the textbook, interactive notebook and lesson handouts.

Digital: Government Alive! Columbus City Edition

Hard Copy Class Sets: Government Alive! Power Politics and You, 3rd Edition

Government Alive! Teacher Placards. This is a hard copy package. These will be sent to teachers via CCS office mail.

All teacher materials are contained in the digital platform. Teacher materials can be projected in presentation format and/or printed as PDF files. There is no teacher's wrap-around edition. All student materials can be accessed via the digital platform and/or printed as PDF files. This includes the textbook, interactive notebook and lesson handouts.

Digital and Hard Copy Class Sets: Econ Alive! The Power to Choose, 3rd Edition

Econ Alive! Teacher Placards. This is a hard copy package. These will be sent to teachers via CCS office mail.

All teacher materials are contained in the digital platform. Teacher materials can be projected in presentation format and/or printed as PDF files. There is no teacher's wrap-around edition. All student materials can be accessed via the digital platform and/or printed as PDF files. This includes the textbook, interactive notebook and lesson handouts.

Digital Only: Global Issues Alive! This is custom CCS digital only book aligned with the order of the CCS Curriculum Map.

All teacher materials are contained in the digital platform. Teacher materials can be projected in presentation format and/or printed as PDF files. There is no teacher's wrap-around edition. All student materials can be accessed via the digital platform and/or printed as PDF files. This includes the textbook, interactive notebook and lesson handouts.