TIEL Institute -- Teaching for Intellectual and Emotional Learning

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The TIEL Curriculum Design Wheel is the graphic representation of the TIEL model. Complex teaching and learning at the TIEL Institute is based on the TIEL Curriculum Design Wheel framework that brings together fundamental intellectual and social-emotional components important to teaching and learning. The lower half of the framework focuses on the intellectual components of learning and teaching, while the upper half focuses on the social-emotional components.

The lower half of the TIEL Curriculum Design Wheel consists of five thinking operations. The thinking operations include cognition, gathering information; memory, connecting new information to previously learned knowledge; evaluation, decision making, planning, and self-evaluation; convergent production, thinking that involves logic, organization, and one right answer; and divergent production, creative, flexible thinking.

The upper half of the TIEL Curriculum Design Wheel consists of five qualities of character or social-emotional characteristics. The qualities of character include reflection, learning about oneself and one’s learning; empathy, learning to care for oneself and others; ethical reasoning, acquiring the ethics of fairness, responsibility, and honesty; mastery of basic skills and established knowledge; and appreciation for the arts, cultures, and nature.

The TIEL Curriculum Design Wheel provides a visible structure for teaching both thinking and social-emotional processes. Each component of the TIEL Curriculum Design Wheel includes specific skills. The components are color-coded to highlight relationships between components.

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