Description
Thinking Outside the Book is an ideal course for educators looking for resources to guide students toward creating unique and complex assignments. You’ll learn to lead them to have a deeper response to quality literature, which will ultimately help their love and respect for reading.
In this one-hour course you will learn to incorporate a variety of media to differentiate responses and push your students toward thinking and creating outside the book.
Trainers Sheila Mulbry and Nicole Shannon share their personal best-practices on:
- Using mysteries in literature
- Developing puzzle fiction projects
- Creating personal response papers
- Identifying themes and vocabulary in literature
- Writing mini-research reports
And more!
Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.
This course is aligned with 2016 ODE Teacher Competencies a, b, c, e, f, g and NAGC Teacher Preparation Standards 2.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1.
Jailene – EVERMAN ISD (verified owner) –
I think it was okay.
Jose Luis – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Really enjoyed this course & highly recommend it
Mary – HPS – HOUSTON NORTH (verified owner) –
I enjoyed learning new and exciting ways to teach my gifted students
Yesim – HPS – HOUSTON NORTH (verified owner) –
no
Sabrins – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course is very helpful. I have strategies that I can use with my students on day 1 to ensure engagement for all students.
Genni – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent ideas that can be implemented to enhance student engagement.
Fernando – FABENS ISD (verified owner) –
Good course
Brenda – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course offered several ways to help deepen a student’s understanding and provides extension activities of a selection’s topic, characters, and themes.
Cynthia – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
I love books, so this was outstanding in giving great ideas to think outside the book and show student growth.
Rosa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great Course
Parker – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
It is good and I enjoyed some of the activities, directly applying some of these ideas across grade-levels and districts would be difficult. I would love to show movies to my students that have to do with what we are teaching but my district prohibits it, and my High schoolers would not respond well to some of the shared activities. I do love the built in differentiations and curiosity led ideas though.
Salome – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
The course was very helpful!
Veronica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This provided diferent options to use in the classroom which is always good.
ALICE – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
It was informative.
Rhonda – Private Pay (verified owner) –
It was okay but a little hard for my students
Kathy – RIESEL ISD (verified owner) –
Very Good! I feel this course gave me some good strategies to add to units I have been using.