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Teacher services

Are you a Times NIE teacher? If not, we would like you to join the thousands of Tampa Bay area teachers who already have discovered the value of using the St. Petersburg Times in their classrooms. No matter what subject you teach, the St. Petersburg Times Newspaper in Education program can provide you with classroom subscriptions AND exciting educational activity supplements to use with the newspaper. Best of all, the newspapers and supplements are provided FREE of charge!

Here are more reasons to teach with the Times: Research documents that reading and writing scores improve among students who regularly use newspapers in the classroom. Our creative educational supplements tie the newspaper to all subjects and are aligned to the Sunshine State Standards. In fact, the Times Publishing Company is so committed to supporting teachers that we hired an award-winning educator to develop new curriculum and provide professional development on how to use this powerful tool most effectively!

If you would like to sign up to be a NIE Teacher or if you are a current NIE teacher who wants to order classroom sets of our supplements, click here.

Times Newspaper In Education Program

Every day of the week, the Times provides a fresh textbook for teachers and students. Studies have shown that using the newspaper in the classroom will help students:

• Improve reading and writing skills with feature articles, entertainment reviews and the comics.
• Build vocabulary with crossword puzzles and word games.
• Cultivate critical thinking skills through the Times' prize-winning coverage of local, national and international news.
• Clarify values and develop real-life decision-making skills through human-interest stories and advice columns.
• Sharpen math and problem-solving abilities with sports statistics, stock market listings, weather forecasts and retail ads.
• Broaden their perspective with political cartoons, opinion columns and editorials.
• Apply life skills through classified ads, business and consumer news and recipes.

St. Petersburg Times Dedication

Because the Times is dedicated in its efforts to foster future citizens who are both responsible and informed, it devotes at least two pages of space each week especially for young readers. We suggest you view the St. Petersburg Times Xpress Section.

Times NIE provides:

For teachers, the Times Newspaper In Education (NIE) department provides:

• Classroom newspapers: NIE matches teachers with sponsors to provide daily copies of the newspaper for classroom use at no charge to teachers or schools.
• Teaching guides: NIE offers a wide range of teacher materials for all grades. These materials contain classroom activities using the daily newspaper to learn math, science, language arts and social studies. There are also guides created for adult, special education and gifted classes.
• Student activity tabloids: NIE offers a wide selection of tabloids of special interest to the students.
  
• Custom workshops: NIE provides customized workshops to meet the needs of any audience. Topics range from subject-specific use (i.e. how to reinforce math or science skills), or a cross-curricular presentation for a faculty that wants to use the newspaper in all its classrooms, to using the newspaper to teach character education or to increase family engagement.