Start the year with help for your child in the areas of both thinking and academic skills. Standardized tests, increased workload, complex assignments and project work that require high levels of thinking and self-management skills contribute to the academic stress children in grades 3-8 feel. Parents feel the pressure as well as they try to help their children manage school work. The TIEL Institute helps your child develop the thinking and self-management skills that will help him/her become more successful in school. TIEL, an acronym for Teaching for Intellectual and Emotional Learning, is a framework that helps students understand and better manage their learning. TIEL teaches students the thinking processes required to answer different kinds of questions found on standardized tests. TIEL helps students learn to organize their assignments, set priorities and schedule their work to meet due dates. TIEL helps students develop the complex thinking skills needed to research, make decisions, plan and self-evaluate— all required of independent learners. Using classroom assignments, project work and standardized assessment examples, TIEL helps students gain control over their learning and their school work, helping them to feel better about themselves as learners.