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.
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Mary Beth – LUFKIN ISD (verified owner) –
I liked the different ideas that were present.
Ginger – Allen East Local Schools (verified owner) –
Good ideas for upper elementary, however a little bit of a stretch for lower elementary kiddos.
Crystal – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting ideas about book study
Sergio – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Have the video with the audio presentation
Jorden – ROPES ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas on letting students take control of their learning.
Shanda – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
This course offered great ideas for differentiation in reading responses.
irma – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent Ideas for differentiation!!!
Bregitta – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
It had a lot of gliltches. I had t take it over 3-4 times. so frustrating
Tracy – Pilot (verified owner) –
I like how this course provides outside thinking to help students use depth and complexity when reading and comprehending.
Edward – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful in the TAGT learning process
Brenda – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I really am not a fan of online courses. I prefer to be able to have live dialogue.with other teachers.
Jose – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
This is a good course for courses that use a lot of reading books in them, such as English and reading.
Rosa – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course is adequate for us to learn from. It helps teacher learn that we don’t have to do all the teaching, its ok if we allow our students to take initiative in their learning.
Jana – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I like the very specific lessons given to use in a classroom.
Donald – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Anita – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting, lots of cool activities, but not necessarily applicable in an AP course with very defined parameters.
Amee – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I love all of the ideas on how to reflect and deepen understanding the students can choose from
Gabriel – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Good course, geared more for ELAR teachers, but as a science teacher, I can also implement some of the concepts
Belynda – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
very informative
Martha – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Some good ideas that could work across grade levels
Mark – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Good
Annette – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I felt this was more of a how to rather then something inspirational.
Gabriela – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Diana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent material
Juan – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It really presents different learning styles and it has technology in it.
Arcadio – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas to help expand on topics.
Laura – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
excellent course
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course is very helpful
Kelly – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
It gave some good ideas and some great examples on how to implement those ideas.
esther – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
It is very good but I feel is more for upper grades maybe 3, 4, and fifth but has wonderful ideas to get the students engage in reading.
Elizabeth – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course is excellent, I will give it a 5 stars.
Katiuska – Angleton ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting since they give you a lot of ideas for thinking out of the box.
Margarita – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Great innovative ideas.
Robin – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –
This course was very helpful for understanding how students need to put themselves into a situtation so it helps them learn.
martinia – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
It wasmdifficult to hear one of the speakers.
Xin – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
There are some helpful strategies for writing class, such as using voki website and write how to poems.
Cynthia (Cindy) – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed getting ideas that I may be able to incorporate in my own classroom.
Kimberly – Private Pay (verified owner) –
If I were an English teacher, I would really like the ideas presented here.
DAVID – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
excellent
Jessica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Good use of information.
Crystal – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Joann – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very understandable
Pamela – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
so helpful and full of ideas
Phylis – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
This course has a few good ideas.
Lawrence – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Helpful for beginning teachers.
Barbara – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This was another way of getting ideas to help my students.
Catherine – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
great teaching ideas for the classroom for every student
Michelle – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
Loved the different resources such as website links and examples of how to differentiate.
Eduardo – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It can be used in all levels.
Jessica – RIDGEDALE LOCAL (verified owner) –
NOT beneficial to secondary level. I would say this fits grades 2 through 5 the best. Nothing in this was groundbreaking or new by any means.